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Recent work in zero-shot listwise reranking using LLMs has achieved state-of-the-art results. However, these methods are not without drawbacks. The proposed methods rely on large LLMs with billions of parameters and limited context sizes.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Manveer Singh Tamber , Ronak Pradeep , Jimmy Lin

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL features of entities (e.g., prior probability, relatedness score, and entity embedding) are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chenwei Ran , Wei Shen , Jianbo Gao , Yuhan Li , Jianyong Wang , Yantao Jia

Zero-shot single-cell cell-type annotation aims to determine a cell's type from a given set of expressed genes without any training. Existing knowledge-graph-based RAG approaches retrieve evidence by expanding from source entities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhonghui Zhang , Feng Jiang , Shaowei Qin , Jiahao Zhao , Min Yang

Few-shot named entity recognition can identify new types of named entities based on a few labeled examples. Previous methods employing token-level or span-level metric learning suffer from the computational burden and a large number of…

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We study the problem of $\textit{vector set search}$ with $\textit{vector set queries}$. This task is analogous to traditional near-neighbor search, with the exception that both the query and each element in the collection are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Joshua Engels , Benjamin Coleman , Vihan Lakshman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) are two fundamentally related tasks, since in order to perform EL, first the mentions to entities have to be detected. However, most entity linking approaches disregard the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Entity alignment is crucial for merging knowledge across knowledge graphs, as it matches entities with identical semantics. The standard method matches these entities based on their embedding similarities using semi-supervised learning.…

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Fine-grained entity typing (FET) is the task of identifying specific entity types at a fine-grained level for entity mentions based on their contextual information. Conventional methods for FET require extensive human annotation, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Siru Ouyang , Jiaxin Huang , Pranav Pillai , Yunyi Zhang , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the rare disease domain poses unique challenges due to limited labeled data, semantic ambiguity between entity types, and long-tail distributions. In this study, we evaluate the capabilities of GPT-4o for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nan Miles Xi , Yu Deng , Lin Wang

Political scientists often grapple with data scarcity in text classification. Recently, fine-tuned BERT models and their variants have gained traction as effective solutions to address this issue. In this study, we investigate the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yu Wang , Wen Qu , Xin Ye

There are two approaches for pairwise sentence scoring: Cross-encoders, which perform full-attention over the input pair, and Bi-encoders, which map each input independently to a dense vector space. While cross-encoders often achieve higher…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Nandan Thakur , Nils Reimers , Johannes Daxenberger , Iryna Gurevych

Entity linking (EL) in conversations faces notable challenges in practical applications, primarily due to the scarcity of entity-annotated conversational datasets and sparse knowledge bases (KB) containing domain-specific, long-tail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mohanna Hoveyda , Arjen P. de Vries , Maarten de Rijke , Faegheh Hasibi

Modelling relations between multiple entities has attracted increasing attention recently, and a new dataset called DocRED has been collected in order to accelerate the research on the document-level relation extraction. Current baselines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hong Wang , Christfried Focke , Rob Sylvester , Nilesh Mishra , William Wang

Multilingual BERT (mBERT), a language model pre-trained on large multilingual corpora, has impressive zero-shot cross-lingual transfer capabilities and performs surprisingly well on zero-shot POS tagging and Named Entity Recognition (NER),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Beiduo Chen , Wu Guo , Quan Liu , Kun Tao

Entity structure extraction, which aims to extract entities and their associated attribute-value structures from text, is an essential task for text understanding and knowledge graph construction. Existing methods based on large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xueqiang Xu , Jinfeng Xiao , James Barry , Mohab Elkaref , Jiaru Zou , Pengcheng Jiang , Yunyi Zhang , Max Giammona , Geeth de Mel , Jiawei Han

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task of Biomedical Natural Language Processing for extracting relevant information from biomedical texts, such as clinical records, scientific publications, and electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Fahime Shahrokh , Nasser Ghadiri , Rasoul Samani , Milad Moradi

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

Clinical text is rich in information, with mentions of treatment, medication and anatomy among many other clinical terms. Multiple terms can refer to the same core concepts which can be referred as a clinical entity. Ontologies like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Akshit Achara , Sanand Sasidharan , Gagan N

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), many researchers are attempting to extract structured information from document-level biomedical literature by fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). However, they face significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lei Zhao , Ling Kang , Quan Guo

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have been a key ingredient to achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of tasks in natural language processing and, more recently, also in information retrieval.Recent research even claims that…

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