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Despite impressive results of language models for named entity recognition (NER), their generalization to varied textual genres, a growing entity type set, and new entities remains a challenge. Collecting thousands of annotations in each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims at locating and classifying named entities in text. In some use cases of NER, including cases where detected named entities are used in creating content recommendations, it is crucial to have a reliable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Mahdi Namazifar

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and domains. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying and classifying proper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shibingfeng Zhang , Giovanni Colavizza

The recognition of named entities in visually-rich documents (VrD-NER) plays a critical role in various real-world scenarios and applications. However, the research in VrD-NER faces three major challenges: complex document layouts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yi Tu , Chong Zhang , Ya Guo , Huan Chen , Jinyang Tang , Huijia Zhu , Qi Zhang

Domain-specific named entity recognition (NER) on Computer Science (CS) scholarly articles is an information extraction task that is arguably more challenging for the various annotation aims that can beset the task and has been less studied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an essential precursor task for many natural language applications, such as relation extraction or event extraction. Much of the NER research has been done on datasets with few classes of entity types (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Parul Awasthy , Taesun Moon , Jian Ni , Radu Florian

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a well researched NLP task and is widely used in real world NLP scenarios. NER research typically focuses on the creation of new ways of training NER, with relatively less emphasis on resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Sowmya Vajjala , Ramya Balasubramaniam

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

We cast nested named entity recognition (NNER) as a sequence labeling task by leveraging prior work that linearizes constituency structures, effectively reducing the complexity of this structured prediction problem to straightforward token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz , David Vilares , Caio Corro , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are statistical machine learning models that have strong generalization capability (i.e., can recognize unseen entities that do not appear in training data) based on lexical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jian Ni , Radu Florian

In this paper, we propose a new strategy for the task of named entity recognition (NER). We cast the task as a query-based machine reading comprehension task: e.g., the task of extracting entities with PER is formalized as answering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Zijun Sun , Jiwei Li

Clinical Named Entity Recognition (CNER) aims to identify and classify clinical terms such as diseases, symptoms, treatments, exams, and body parts in electronic health records, which is a fundamental and crucial task for clinical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Qi Wang , Yuhang Xia , Yangming Zhou , Tong Ruan , Daqi Gao , Ping He

Named entity recognition (NER) identifies typed entity mentions in raw text. While the task is well-established, there is no universally used tagset: often, datasets are annotated for use in downstream applications and accordingly only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiao Huang , Li Dong , Elizabeth Boschee , Nanyun Peng

We present a bi-encoder framework for named entity recognition (NER), which applies contrastive learning to map candidate text spans and entity types into the same vector representation space. Prior work predominantly approaches NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Sheng Zhang , Hao Cheng , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon

In recent years, the fine-tuned generative models have been proven more powerful than the previous tagging-based or span-based models on named entity recognition (NER) task. It has also been found that the information related to entities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Guochao Jiang , Ziqin Luo , Yuchen Shi , Dixuan Wang , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. Traditional NER research only deals with flat entities and ignores nested entities. The span-based methods treat entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Zeqi Tan , Shuai Zhang , Wen Wang , Weiming Lu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) serves as a foundational component in many natural language processing (NLP) pipelines. However, current NER models typically output a single predicted label sequence without any accompanying measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Matthew Singer , Srijan Sengupta , Karl Pazdernik

Traditional information retrieval treats named entity recognition as a pre-indexing corpus annotation task, allowing entity tags to be indexed and used during search. Named entity taggers themselves are typically trained on thousands or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 John Foley , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , James Allan

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

Named entity discovery (NED) is an important information retrieval problem that can be decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem, named entity recognition (NER), aims to tag pre-defined sets of words in a vocabulary (called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Sammy Khalife , Michalis Vazirgiannis