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Named-entity recognition (NER) detects texts with predefined semantic labels and is an essential building block for natural language processing (NLP). Notably, recent NER research focuses on utilizing massive extra data, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuxiang Zhang , Junjie Wang , Xinyu Zhu , Tetsuya Sakai , Hayato Yamana

Function is increasingly recognized as an important indicator of whole-person health, although it receives little attention in clinical natural language processing research. We introduce the first public annotated dataset specifically on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Tuan-Dung Le , Zhuqi Miao , Samuel Alvarado , Brittany Smith , William Paiva , Thanh Thieu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task that requires substantial annotated data, making it challenging in low-resource scenarios where label acquisition is expensive. While zero-shot and instruction-tuned approaches have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nanda Kumar Rengarajan , Jun Yan , Chun Wang

Deep neural network models have helped named entity (NE) recognition achieve amazing performance without handcrafting features. However, existing systems require large amounts of human annotated training data. Efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ying Luo , Hai Zhao , Junlang Zhan

For several purposes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis or Chatbot, Named Entity Recognition (NER) holds an important role as it helps to determine and categorize entities in text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Thong Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Pramod Rao

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This paper aims to quantify how this diversity impacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Isabelle Augenstein , Leon Derczynski , Kalina Bontcheva

Supervised named entity recognition (NER) in the biomedical domain depends on large sets of annotated texts with the given named entities. The creation of such datasets can be time-consuming and expensive, while extraction of new entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miloš Košprdić , Nikola Prodanović , Adela Ljajić , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević

The use of LLMs for natural language processing has become a popular trend in the past two years, driven by their formidable capacity for context comprehension and learning, which has inspired a wave of research from academics and industry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Faren Yan , Peng Yu , Xin Chen

Named entity recognition (NER) is highly sensitive to sentential syntactic and semantic properties where entities may be extracted according to how they are used and placed in the running text. To model such properties, one could rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yuyang Nie , Yuanhe Tian , Yan Song , Xiang Ao , Xiang Wan

In a surprising turn, Large Language Models (LLMs) together with a growing arsenal of prompt-based heuristics now offer powerful off-the-shelf approaches providing few-shot solutions to myriad classic NLP problems. However, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Dhananjay Ashok , Zachary C. Lipton

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Entity Linking (EL) play an essential role in voice assistant interaction, but are challenging due to the special difficulties associated with spoken user queries. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Named Entity Recognition for social media data is challenging because of its inherent noisiness. In addition to improper grammatical structures, it contains spelling inconsistencies and numerous informal abbreviations. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , Suraj Maharjan , Adrian Pastor López-Monroy , Thamar Solorio

Most Named Entity Recognition (NER) models operate under the assumption that training datasets are fully labelled. While it is valid for established datasets like CoNLL 2003 and OntoNotes, sometimes it is not feasible to obtain the complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Viktor Scherbakov , Vladimir Mayorov

Named Entity Recognition (NER) or the extraction of concepts from clinical text is the task of identifying entities in text and slotting them into categories such as problems, treatments, tests, clinical departments, occurrences (such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Namrata Nath , Sang-Heon Lee , Ivan Lee

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks involve mapping from speech audio signals to semantic labels. Given the complexity of such tasks, good performance might be expected to require large labeled datasets, which are difficult to collect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ankita Pasad , Felix Wu , Suwon Shon , Karen Livescu , Kyu J. Han

The CoNLL-03 corpus is arguably the most well-known and utilized benchmark dataset for named entity recognition (NER). However, prior works found significant numbers of annotation errors, incompleteness, and inconsistencies in the data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Susanna Rücker , Alan Akbik

The availability of large amounts of computer-readable textual data and hardware that can process the data has shifted the focus of knowledge projects towards deep learning architecture. Natural Language Processing, particularly the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Arya Roy

Contextual word embedding models such as ELMo (Peters et al., 2018) and BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) have dramatically improved performance for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks in recent months. However, these models have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Emily Alsentzer , John R. Murphy , Willie Boag , Wei-Hung Weng , Di Jin , Tristan Naumann , Matthew B. A. McDermott

State of the art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models have achieved an impressive ability to extract common phrases from text that belong to labels such as location, organization, time, and person. However, typical NER systems that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandra Loessberg-Zahl

Recent multilingual named entity recognition (NER) work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can provide effective synthetic supervision, yet such datasets have mostly appeared as by-products of broader experiments rather than as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Alan Akbik