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In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaolei Huang , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng

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

There is a recent interest in investigating few-shot NER, where the low-resource target domain has different label sets compared with a resource-rich source domain. Existing methods use a similarity-based metric. However, they cannot make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Leyang Cui , Yu Wu , Jian Liu , Sen Yang , Yue Zhang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves

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

More recently, Named Entity Recognition hasachieved great advances aided by pre-trainingapproaches such as BERT. However, currentpre-training techniques focus on building lan-guage modeling objectives to learn a gen-eral representation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mengge Xue , Bowen Yu , Zhenyu Zhang , Tingwen Liu , Yue Zhang , Bin Wang

Traditional information retrieval treats named entity recognition as a pre-indexing corpus annotation task, allowing entity tags to be indexed and used during search. Named entity taggers themselves are typically trained on thousands or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 John Foley , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , James Allan

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in unstructured text. In the legal domain, named entities of interest may include the case parties, judges, names of courts, case numbers, references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Stavroula Skylaki , Ali Oskooei , Omar Bari , Nadja Herger , Zac Kriegman

Entity Linking is the task of matching a mention to an entity in a given knowledge base (KB). It contributes to annotating a massive amount of documents existing on the Web to harness new facts about their matched entities. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hassan Soliman

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Named entity recognition (NER) systems that perform well require task-related and manually annotated datasets. However, they are expensive to develop, and are thus limited in size. As there already exists a large number of NER datasets that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Nargiza Nosirova , Mingbin Xu , Hui Jiang

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

In low-resource natural language processing (NLP), the key problems are a lack of target language training data, and a lack of native speakers to create it. Cross-lingual methods have had notable success in addressing these concerns, but in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Tatiana Tsygankova , Francesca Marini , Stephen Mayhew , Dan Roth

Successful Machine Learning based Named Entity Recognition models could fail on texts from some special domains, for instance, Chinese addresses and e-commerce titles, where requires adequate background knowledge. Such texts are also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xin Zhang , Yong Jiang , Xiaobin Wang , Xuming Hu , Yueheng Sun , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang

State-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems have been improving continuously using neural architectures over the past several years. However, many tasks including NER require large sets of annotated data to achieve such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Parminder Bhatia , Kristjan Arumae , Busra Celikkaya

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable adaptability across domains, these models often fall short in structured knowledge extraction tasks such as named entity recognition (NER). This paper explores an innovative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yuzhao Heng , Chunyuan Deng , Yitong Li , Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Rongzhi Zhang , Chao Zhang

State of the art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models have achieved an impressive ability to extract common phrases from text that belong to labels such as location, organization, time, and person. However, typical NER systems that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandra Loessberg-Zahl

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations with correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Diego Esteves , Rafael Peres , Jens Lehmann , Giulio Napolitano