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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) systems play a vital role in NLP applications such as machine translation, summarization, and question-answering. These systems identify named entities, which encompass real-world concepts like locations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Harsh Chaudhari , Anuja Patil , Dhanashree Lavekar , Pranav Khairnar , Raviraj Joshi , Sachin Pande

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 fundamental task in numerous downstream applications. Recently, researchers have employed pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) to address this task. However, fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yufei Zhao , Xiaoshi Zhong , Erik Cambria , Jagath C. Rajapakse

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) stands out as a pivotal mechanism for extracting structured insights from unstructured text. This manuscript offers an exhaustive exploration into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kalyani Pakhale

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in NLP systems for question answering, information retrieval, relation extraction, etc. NER systems have been studied and developed widely for decades, but accurate systems using deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard

Named entity recognition (NER) is an information extraction technique that aims to locate and classify named entities (e.g., organizations, locations,...) within a document into predefined categories. Correctly identifying these phrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tran Thi Hong Hanh , Antoine Doucet , Nicolas Sidere , Jose G. Moreno , Senja Pollak

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

Named entity recognition (NER) is evolving from a sequence labeling task into a generative paradigm with the rise of large language models (LLMs). We conduct a systematic evaluation of open-source LLMs on both flat and nested NER tasks. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qi Zhan , Yile Wang , Hui Huang

Lately, instruction-based techniques have made significant strides in improving performance in few-shot learning scenarios. They achieve this by bridging the gap between pre-trained language models and fine-tuning for specific downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hiranmai Sri Adibhatla , Pavan Baswani , Manish Shrivastava

Generative LLMs typically improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance through instruction tuning. They excel at generating entities by semantic pattern matching but lack an explicit, verifiable reasoning mechanism. This "cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hui Huang , Yanping Chen , Ruizhang Huang , Chuan Lin , Yongbin Qin

Recurrent Neural Network models are the state-of-the-art for Named Entity Recognition (NER). We present two innovations to improve the performance of these models. The first innovation is the introduction of residual connections between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Quan Tran , Andrew MacKinlay , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

The task of named entity recognition (NER) is normally divided into nested NER and flat NER depending on whether named entities are nested or not. Models are usually separately developed for the two tasks, since sequence labeling models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoya Li , Jingrong Feng , Yuxian Meng , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

Named entity recognition (NER) is a vital task in spoken language understanding, which aims to identify mentions of named entities in text e.g., from transcribed speech. Existing neural models for NER rely mostly on dedicated word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Abdalghani Abujabal , Judith Gaspers

The inception of modeling contextual information using models such as BERT, ELMo, and Flair has significantly improved representation learning for words. It has also given SOTA results in almost every NLP task - Machine Translation, Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Avi Chawla , Nidhi Mulay , Vikas Bishnoi , Gaurav Dhama

Modern automatic translation systems aim at place the human at the center by providing contextual support and knowledge. In this context, a critical task is enriching the output with information regarding the mentioned entities, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Marco Gaido , Sara Papi , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Most state-of-the-art approaches for named-entity recognition (NER) use semi supervised information in the form of word clusters and lexicons. Recently neural network-based language models have been explored, as they as a byproduct generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Alexandre Passos , Vineet Kumar , Andrew McCallum

Deploying natural language processing (NLP) models on mobile platforms requires models that can adapt across diverse applications while remaining efficient in memory and computation. We investigate pre-finetuning strategies to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Junyi Zhu , Savas Ozkan , Andrea Maracani , Sinan Mutlu , Cho Jung Min , Mete Ozay

For many natural language processing (NLP) tasks the amount of annotated data is limited. This urges a need to apply semi-supervised learning techniques, such as transfer learning or meta-learning. In this work we tackle Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alexander Fritzler , Varvara Logacheva , Maksim Kretov