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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and classifying named entities in text. But much work hasn't been done for complex named entity recognition in Bangla, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 HAZ Sameen Shahgir , Ramisa Alam , Md. Zarif Ul Alam

Identifying named entities such as a person, location or organization, in documents can highlight key information to readers. Training Named Entity Recognition (NER) models requires an annotated data set, which can be a time-consuming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ting Wai Terence Au , Ingemar J. Cox , Vasileios Lampos

The Flickr30k dataset has become a standard benchmark for sentence-based image description. This paper presents Flickr30k Entities, which augments the 158k captions from Flickr30k with 244k coreference chains, linking mentions of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Bryan A. Plummer , Liwei Wang , Chris M. Cervantes , Juan C. Caicedo , Julia Hockenmaier , Svetlana Lazebnik

In this research, we continuously collect data from the RSS feeds of traditional news sources. We apply several pre-trained implementations of named entity recognition (NER) tools, quantifying the success of each implementation. We also…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ashwini Badgujar , Sheng Chen , Andrew Wang , Kai Yu , Paul Intrevado , David Guy Brizan

Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Peter Szolovits

In tasks like question answering or text summarisation, it is essential to have background knowledge about the relevant entities. The information about entities - in particular, about long-tail or emerging entities - in publicly available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task that aims to identify and classify entity mentions in texts across different categories. While languages such as English possess a large number of…

Identification of named entities from legal texts is an essential building block for developing other legal Artificial Intelligence applications. Named Entities in legal texts are slightly different and more fine-grained than commonly used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Prathamesh Kalamkar , Astha Agarwal , Aman Tiwari , Smita Gupta , Saurabh Karn , Vivek Raghavan

Named Entity Recognition (NER) involves identifying and categorizing named entities within textual data. Despite its significance, NER research has often overlooked low-resource languages like Myanmar (Burmese), primarily due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kaung Lwin Thant , Kwankamol Nongpong , Ye Kyaw Thu , Thura Aung , Khaing Hsu Wai , Thazin Myint Oo

Adapting named entity recognition (NER) methods to new domains poses significant challenges. We introduce RapidNER, a framework designed for the rapid deployment of NER systems through efficient dataset construction. RapidNER operates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jesse Atuhurra , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Hiroki Ouchi , Hiroyuki Shindo , Taro Watanabe

The timeline generation task summarises an entity's biography by selecting stories representing key events from a large pool of relevant documents. This paper addresses the lack of a standard dataset and evaluative methodology for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Xavier Holt , Will Radford , Ben Hachey

Much of human knowledge is encoded in text, available in scientific publications, books, and the web. Given the rapid growth of these resources, we need automated methods to extract such knowledge into machine-processable structures, such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Shobeir Fakhraei , Joel Mathew , Jose Luis Ambite

The extraction of critical information from crime-related documents is a crucial task for law enforcement agencies. Named-Entity Recognition (NER) can perform this task in extracting information about the crime, the criminal, or law…

This paper presents a corpus manually annotated with named entities for six Slavic languages - Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, Russian, and Ukrainian. This work is the result of a series of shared tasks, conducted in 2017-2023 as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jakub Piskorski , Michał Marcińczuk , Roman Yangarber

The MultiCoNER shared task aims at detecting semantically ambiguous and complex named entities in short and low-context settings for multiple languages. The lack of contexts makes the recognition of ambiguous named entities challenging. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xinyu Wang , Yongliang Shen , Jiong Cai , Tao Wang , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang , Kewei Tu , Wei Lu , Yong Jiang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a vital role in various Natural Language Processing tasks such as information retrieval, text classification, and question answering. However, NER can be challenging, especially in low-resource languages…

We introduce ParaNames, a massively multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jonne Sälevä , Constantine Lignos

Recent named entity recognition (NER) models often rely on human-annotated datasets, requiring the significant engagement of professional knowledge on the target domain and entities. This research introduces an ask-to-generate approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jinhyuk Lee , Jaewoo Kang

We describe a dataset developed for Named Entity Recognition in German federal court decisions. It consists of approx. 67,000 sentences with over 2 million tokens. The resource contains 54,000 manually annotated entities, mapped to 19…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Elena Leitner , Georg Rehm , Julián Moreno-Schneider

Despite being one of the most linguistically diverse groups of countries, computational linguistics and language processing research in Southeast Asia has struggled to match the level of countries from the Global North. Thus, initiatives…