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Recent advances in Named Entity Recognition (NER) show that document-level contexts can significantly improve model performance. In many application scenarios, however, such contexts are not available. In this paper, we propose to find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key step in the creation of structured data from digitised historical documents. Traditional NER approaches deal with flat named entities, whereas entities often are nested. For example, a postal address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Solenn Tual , Nathalie Abadie , J Chazalon , Bertrand Duménieu , Edwin Carlinet

Named entity recognition (NER) stands as a fundamental and pivotal task within the realm of Natural Language Processing. Particularly within the domain of Biomedical Method NER, this task presents notable challenges, stemming from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chen Tang , Bohao Yang , Kun Zhao , Bo Lv , Chenghao Xiao , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

We introduce the task of entity-centric query refinement. Given an input query whose answer is a (potentially large) collection of entities, the task output is a small set of query refinements meant to assist the user in efficient domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 David Wadden , Nikita Gupta , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

Inspired by a concept of content-addressable retrieval from cognitive science, we propose a novel fragment-based model augmented with a lexicon-based memory for Chinese NER, in which both the character-level and word-level features are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Yi Zhou , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Nested named entity recognition (nested NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Various span-based methods have been proposed to detect nested entities with span representations. However, span-based methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shuhui Wu , Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Weiming Lu

With the AI revolution in place, the trend for building automated systems to support professionals in different domains such as the open source software systems, healthcare systems, banking systems, transportation systems and many others…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Somnath Banerjee , Avik Dutta , Aaditya Agrawal , Rima Hazra , Animesh Mukherjee

We focus on the problem of learning distributed representations for entity search queries, named entities, and their short descriptions. With our representation learning models, the entity search query, named entity and description can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Shijia E , Yang Xiang , Mohan Zhang

Named entity recognition (NER) is usually developed and tested on text from well-written sources. However, in intelligent voice assistants, where NER is an important component, input to NER may be noisy because of user or speech recognition…

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays an important role in a wide range of natural language processing tasks, such as relation extraction, question answering, etc. However, previous studies on NER are limited to particular genres, using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Mengdi Zhu , Zheye Deng , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Ming Zhang , William Yang Wang

NER model has achieved promising performance on standard NER benchmarks. However, recent studies show that previous approaches may over-rely on entity mention information, resulting in poor performance on out-of-vocabulary (OOV) entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Xiao Wang , Shihan Dou , Limao Xiong , Yicheng Zou , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Xuanjing Huang

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

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

Information extraction techniques, including named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE), are crucial in many domains to support making sense of vast amounts of unstructured text data by identifying and connecting relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mingjie Li , Karin Verspoor

Named Entity Recognition (NER) models play a crucial role in various NLP tasks, including information extraction (IE) and text understanding. In academic writing, references to machine learning models and datasets are fundamental components…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Wolfgang Otto , Matthäus Zloch , Lu Gan , Saurav Karmakar , Stefan Dietze

Understanding searchers' queries is an essential component of semantic search systems. In many cases, search queries involve specific attributes of an entity in a knowledge base (KB), which can be further used to find query answers. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Arian Askari , Faegheh Hasibi , Mahmood Neshati

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are supervised machine learning models that require large amounts of manually annotated data to achieve high accuracy. However, annotating NER data by human is expensive and…

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

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task for online advertisement. State-of-the-art solutions leverage pre-trained language models for this task. However, three major challenges remain unresolved: web queries differ from natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Simiao Zuo , Pengfei Tang , Xinyu Hu , Qiang Lou , Jian Jiao , Denis Charles

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…