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Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Peter Szolovits

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

BiLSTM has been prevalently used as a core module for NER in a sequence-labeling setup. State-of-the-art approaches use BiLSTM with additional resources such as gazetteers, language-modeling, or multi-task supervision to further improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Peng-Hsuan Li , Tsu-Jui Fu , Wei-Yun Ma

Specialized transformer-based models for encoding tabular data have gained interest in academia. Although tabular data is omnipresent in industry, applications of table transformers are still missing. In this paper, we study how these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Mark Buckley , Rakebul Hasan , Volker Tresp

Deep neural networks (DNNs) used for brain-computer-interface (BCI) classification are commonly expected to learn general features when trained across a variety of contexts, such that these features could be fine-tuned to specific contexts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Demetres Kostas , Stephane Aroca-Ouellette , Frank Rudzicz

Named entity recognition (NER) has been one of the essential preliminary steps in modern NLP applications. This report focuses on implementing the NER task on finetuning two pretrained models: (i) an encoder-only model (BERT) with a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mei Jia

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

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely studied task in natural language processing. Recently, a growing number of studies have focused on the nested NER. The span-based methods, considering the entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zeqi Tan , Yongliang Shen , Shuai Zhang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Transformer has been widely-used in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks and the scaled dot-product attention between tokens is a core module of Transformer. This attention is a token-wise design and its complexity is quadratic to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Shuai Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xindian Ma , Junqiu Wei , Ningning Wang , Qun Liu

Named entity recognition in real-world applications suffers from the diversity of entity types, the emergence of new entity types, and the lack of high-quality annotations. To address the above problems, this paper proposes an in-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jiawei Chen , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jie Lou , Wei Jia , Dai Dai , Hua Wu , Boxi Cao , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

For languages with no annotated resources, transferring knowledge from rich-resource languages is an effective solution for named entity recognition (NER). While all existing methods directly transfer from source-learned model to a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Guoxin Wang , Hui Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin-Yew Lin

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

Recognizing entities in texts is a central need in many information-seeking scenarios, and indeed, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is arguably one of the most successful examples of a widely adopted NLP task and corresponding NLP technology.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Uri Katz , Matan Vetzler , Amir DN Cohen , Yoav Goldberg

This paper introduces an approach for building a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model built upon a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) architecture, specifically utilizing the SlovakBERT model. This NER model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bibiána Lajčinová , Patrik Valábek , Michal Spišiak

One of the main tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), is Named Entity Recognition (NER). It is used in many applications and also can be used as an intermediate step for other tasks. We present ANER, a web-based named entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Abdelrahman "Boda" Sadallah , Omar Ahmed , Shimaa Mohamed , Omar Hatem , Doaa Hesham , Ahmed H. Yousef

Named Entity Recognition (NER) from social media posts is a challenging task. User generated content that forms the nature of social media, is noisy and contains grammatical and linguistic errors. This noisy content makes it much harder for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu , M. Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Leili Farzinvash , M. A. Balafar , Cina Motamed

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

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 a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to extract entities from unstructured data. The previous methods for NER were based on machine learning or deep learning. Recently, pre-training models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yu Wang , Yining Sun , Zuchang Ma , Lisheng Gao , Yang Xu , Ting Sun

Despite advancements of end-to-end (E2E) models in speech recognition, named entity recognition (NER) is still challenging but critical for semantic understanding. Previous studies mainly focus on various rule-based or attention-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Peng Wang , Yifan Yang , Zheng Liang , Tian Tan , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen