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Active learning has been shown to be an effective way to alleviate some of the effort required in utilising large collections of unlabelled data for machine learning tasks without needing to fully label them. The representation mechanism…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jinghui Lu , Brian MacNamee

BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

This paper presents new state-of-the-art models for three tasks, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, and semantic parsing, using the cutting-edge contextualized embedding framework known as BERT. For each task, we first replicate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Han He , Jinho D. Choi

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

We propose a new Named entity recognition (NER) method to effectively make use of the results of Part-of-speech (POS) tagging, Chinese word segmentation (CWS) and parsing while avoiding NER error caused by POS tagging error. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiao Fu , Guijun Zhang

This paper presents a framework for Named Entity Recognition (NER) leveraging the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model in natural language processing (NLP). NER is a fundamental task in NLP with broad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mo Sun , Siheng Xiong , Yuankai Cai , Bowen Zuo

Pre-trained models such as BERT are widely used in NLP tasks and are fine-tuned to improve the performance of various NLP tasks consistently. Nevertheless, the fine-tuned BERT model trained on our protocol corpus still has a weak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Shoubin Li , Wenzao Cui , Yujiang Liu , Xuran Ming , Jun Hu , YuanzheHu , Qing Wang

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. As a state-of-the-art language model pre-training model, BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) has achieved amazing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Yige Xu , Xuanjing Huang

Traditional named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify text mentions into pre-defined entity types. Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is introduced since entity categories are continuously increasing in various real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yawen Yang , Fukun Ma , Shiao Meng , Aiwei Liu , Lijie Wen

Detection and disambiguation of all entities in text is a crucial task for a wide range of applications. The typical formulation of the problem involves two stages: detect mention boundaries and link all mentions to a knowledge base. For a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Christina Du , Kashyap Popat , Louis Martin , Fabio Petroni

Named entity recognition (NER) is an important research problem in natural language processing. There are three types of NER tasks, including flat, nested and discontinuous entity recognition. Most previous sequential labeling models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ying Mo , Hongyin Tang , Jiahao Liu , Qifan Wang , Zenglin Xu , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Zhoujun Li

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in historical texts presents unique challenges due to non-standardized language, archaic orthography, and nested or overlapping entities. This study benchmarks a diverse set of NER approaches, ranging from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ludovic Moncla , Hédi Zeghidi

This paper summarizes the CLaC submission for the MultiCoNER 2 task which concerns the recognition of complex, fine-grained named entities. We compare two popular approaches for NER, namely Sequence Labeling and Span Prediction. We find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Harsh Verma , Sabine Bergler

Even as pre-trained language encoders such as BERT are shared across many tasks, the output layers of question answering, text classification, and regression models are significantly different. Span decoders are frequently used for question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

We present a weakly-supervised data augmentation approach to improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a challenging domain: extracting biomedical entities (e.g., proteins) from the scientific literature. First, we train a neural NER (NNER)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Mathew , Shobeir Fakhraei , José Luis Ambite

Pretrained language models such as BERT, GPT have shown great effectiveness in language understanding. The auxiliary predictive tasks in existing pretraining approaches are mostly defined on tokens, thus may not be able to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hongchao Fang , Sicheng Wang , Meng Zhou , Jiayuan Ding , Pengtao Xie

Prompt learning is a new paradigm for utilizing pre-trained language models and has achieved great success in many tasks. To adopt prompt learning in the NER task, two kinds of methods have been explored from a pair of symmetric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Shuhui Wu , Wenqi Zhang , Rongsheng Zhang , Yadong Xi , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Named entity recognition identifies common classes of entities in text, but these entity labels are generally sparse, limiting utility to downstream tasks. In this work we present ScienceExamCER, a densely-labeled semantic classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Hannah Smith , Zeyu Zhang , John Culnan , Peter Jansen

Relation classification is an important NLP task to extract relations between entities. The state-of-the-art methods for relation classification are primarily based on Convolutional or Recurrent Neural Networks. Recently, the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Shanchan Wu , Yifan He

Named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) are two important tasks in information extraction and retrieval (IE \& IR). Recent work has demonstrated that it is beneficial to learn these tasks jointly, which avoids the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 John Giorgi , Xindi Wang , Nicola Sahar , Won Young Shin , Gary D. Bader , Bo Wang