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Identifying named entities such as a person, location or organization, in documents can highlight key information to readers. Training Named Entity Recognition (NER) models requires an annotated data set, which can be a time-consuming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ting Wai Terence Au , Ingemar J. Cox , Vasileios Lampos

Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiang Ren , Yuhao Zhang , Marinka Zitnik , Jingbo Shang , Curtis Langlotz , Jiawei Han

We present MultiCoNER, a large multilingual dataset for Named Entity Recognition that covers 3 domains (Wiki sentences, questions, and search queries) across 11 languages, as well as multilingual and code-mixing subsets. This dataset is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Shervin Malmasi , Anjie Fang , Besnik Fetahu , Sudipta Kar , Oleg Rokhlenko

There are a few challenges related to the task of biomedical named entity recognition, which are: the existing methods consider a fewer number of biomedical entities (e.g., disease, symptom, proteins, genes); and these methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shaina Raza , Brian Schwartz

Prion diseases are rare, rapidly progressive, and fatal neurodegenerative disorders that remain difficult to diagnose, particularly in their early stages because of nonspecific clinical presentations. However, to our knowledge, there is no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 An Dao , Nhan Ly , Thao Tran , Yuji Matsumoto , Akiko Aizawa

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) presents unique challenges due to specialized vocabularies, the sheer volume of entities, and the continuous emergence of novel entities. Traditional NER models, constrained by fixed taxonomies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Anthony Yazdani , Ihor Stepanov , Douglas Teodoro

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to identify mentions of rigid designators from text belonging to predefined semantic types such as person, location, organization etc. NER always serves as the foundation for many natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jing Li , Aixin Sun , Jianglei Han , Chenliang Li

Named-entity recognition (NER) is fundamental to extracting structured information from the >80% of healthcare data that resides in unstructured clinical notes and biomedical literature. Despite recent advances with large language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Maziyar Panahi

The emergence of the novel COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on global healthcare and the economy over the past few months. The virus's rapid widespread has led to a proliferation in biomedical research addressing the pandemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chongyan Chen , Islam Akef Ebeid , Yi Bu , Ying Ding

In this paper, we introduce the NER dataset from CLUE organization (CLUENER2020), a well-defined fine-grained dataset for named entity recognition in Chinese. CLUENER2020 contains 10 categories. Apart from common labels like person,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Liang Xu , Yu tong , Qianqian Dong , Yixuan Liao , Cong Yu , Yin Tian , Weitang Liu , Lu Li , Caiquan Liu , Xuanwei Zhang

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

Recently, considerable literature has grown up around the theme of few-shot named entity recognition (NER), but little published benchmark data specifically focused on the practical and challenging task. Current approaches collect existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Ning Ding , Guangwei Xu , Yulin Chen , Xiaobin Wang , Xu Han , Pengjun Xie , Hai-Tao Zheng , Zhiyuan Liu

Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) serves as the foundation for numerous biomedical text mining tasks. Unlike general NER, BNER require a comprehensive grasp of the domain, and incorporating external knowledge beyond training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junyi Bian , Rongze Jiang , Weiqi Zhai , Tianyang Huang , Hong Zhou , Shanfeng Zhu

We aimed to enhance the performance of a supervised model for clinical named-entity recognition (NER) using medical terminologies. In order to evaluate our system in French, we built a corpus for 5 types of clinical entities. We used a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Ivan Lerner , Nicolas Paris , Xavier Tannier

Much of named entity recognition (NER) research focuses on developing dataset-specific models based on data from the domain of interest, and a limited set of related entity types. This is frustrating as each new dataset requires a new model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jinghui Lu , Rui Zhao , Brian Mac Namee , Fei Tan

The recognition of named entities in visually-rich documents (VrD-NER) plays a critical role in various real-world scenarios and applications. However, the research in VrD-NER faces three major challenges: complex document layouts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yi Tu , Chong Zhang , Ya Guo , Huan Chen , Jinyang Tang , Huijia Zhu , Qi Zhang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an essential precursor task for many natural language applications, such as relation extraction or event extraction. Much of the NER research has been done on datasets with few classes of entity types (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Parul Awasthy , Taesun Moon , Jian Ni , Radu Florian

Supervised named entity recognition (NER) in the biomedical domain depends on large sets of annotated texts with the given named entities. The creation of such datasets can be time-consuming and expensive, while extraction of new entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miloš Košprdić , Nikola Prodanović , Adela Ljajić , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević

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

The COVID-19 pandemic caused great losses worldwide, efforts are taken place to prevent but many countries have failed. In Vietnam, the traceability, localization, and quarantine of people who contact with patients contribute to effective…