English
Related papers

Related papers: A Multi-task Learning Approach for Named Entity Re…

200 papers

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in the fields of natural language processing and information extraction. NER has been widely used as a standalone tool or an essential component in a variety of applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Vladislav Mikhailov , Tatiana Shavrina

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

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

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

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

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER), the task of identifying named entities with only a limited amount of labeled data, has gained increasing significance in natural language processing. While existing methodologies have shown some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yafeng Zhang , Zilan Yu , Yuang Huang , Jing Tang

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the most common tasks of the natural language processing. The purpose of NER is to find and classify tokens in text documents into predefined categories called tags, such as person names, quantity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 L. T. Anh , M. Y. Arkhipov , M. S. Burtsev

Named entity recognition is a challenging task that has traditionally required large amounts of knowledge in the form of feature engineering and lexicons to achieve high performance. In this paper, we present a novel neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Jason P. C. Chiu , Eric Nichols

In this work, we propose a two-stage method for named entity recognition (NER), especially for nested NER. We borrowed the idea from the two-stage Object Detection in computer vision and the way how they construct the loss function. First,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Bing Li

Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data. There have been efforts on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Xiaotao Gu , Teng Ren , Jiawei Han

Named entity recognition (NER), which focuses on the extraction of semantically meaningful named entities and their semantic classes from text, serves as an indispensable component for several down-stream natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Zhanming Jie , Aldrian Obaja Muis , Wei Lu

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

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

Although modern named entity recognition (NER) systems show impressive performance on standard datasets, they perform poorly when presented with noisy data. In particular, capitalization is a strong signal for entities in many languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Stephen Mayhew , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

Training a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model often involves fixing a taxonomy of entity types. However, requirements evolve and we might need the NER model to recognize additional entity types. A simple approach is to re-annotate entire…

Nested Named Entity Recognition (NNER) focuses on addressing overlapped entity recognition. Compared to Flat Named Entity Recognition (FNER), annotated resources are scarce in the corpus for NNER. Data augmentation is an effective approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xingming Liao , Nankai Lin , Haowen Li , Lianglun Cheng , Zhuowei Wang , Chong Chen

The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important component of many natural language processing systems, such as relation extraction and knowledge graph construction. In this work, we present a simple and effective approach for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Urchade Zaratiana , Pierre Holat , Nadi Tomeh , Thierry Charnois

Most of the Natural Language Processing systems are involved in entity-based processing for several tasks like Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Text-Summarization and so on. A new challenge comes when entities play roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Neelesh Kumar Shukla , Sanasam Ranbir Singh

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