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Contextual word representations, typically trained on unstructured, unlabeled text, do not contain any explicit grounding to real world entities and are often unable to remember facts about those entities. We propose a general method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Matthew E. Peters , Mark Neumann , Robert L. Logan , Roy Schwartz , Vidur Joshi , Sameer Singh , Noah A. Smith

In this paper we delve deep in the Transformer architecture by investigating two of its core components: self-attention and contextual embeddings. In particular, we study the identifiability of attention weights and token embeddings, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Gino Brunner , Yang Liu , Damián Pascual , Oliver Richter , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Roger Wattenhofer

Current state-of-the-art systems for sequence labeling are typically based on the family of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). However, the shallow connections between consecutive hidden states of RNNs and insufficient modeling of global…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Jinchao Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

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

Deep neural network models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance gains in a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks (Young, Hazarika, Poria, & Cambria, 2017). However, these gains rely on the availability of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Maximilian Hofer , Andrey Kormilitzin , Paul Goldberg , Alejo Nevado-Holgado

Named entity recognition (NER) identifies typed entity mentions in raw text. While the task is well-established, there is no universally used tagset: often, datasets are annotated for use in downstream applications and accordingly only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiao Huang , Li Dong , Elizabeth Boschee , Nanyun Peng

Recommender systems often struggle with data sparsity and cold-start scenarios, limiting their ability to provide accurate suggestions for new or infrequent users. This paper presents a Graph Attention Network (GAT) based Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Danial Ebrat , Sepideh Ahmadian , Luis Rueda

Enterprises grapple with the significant challenge of managing proprietary unstructured data, hindering efficient information retrieval. This has led to the emergence of AI-driven information retrieval solutions, designed to adeptly extract…

Named entity recognition (NER) models are typically based on the architecture of Bi-directional LSTM (BiLSTM). The constraints of sequential nature and the modeling of single input prevent the full utilization of global information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ying Luo , Fengshun Xiao , Hai Zhao

Nested named entity recognition (NER) has been receiving increasing attention. Recently, (Fu et al, 2021) adapt a span-based constituency parser to tackle nested NER. They treat nested entities as partially-observed constituency trees and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Chao Lou , Songlin Yang , Kewei Tu

Turkish Wikipedia Named-Entity Recognition and Text Categorization (TWNERTC) dataset is a collection of automatically categorized and annotated sentences obtained from Wikipedia. We constructed large-scale gazetteers by using a graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-10 H. Bahadir Sahin , Caglar Tirkaz , Eray Yildiz , Mustafa Tolga Eren , Ozan Sonmez

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

With the advent of word embeddings, lexicons are no longer fully utilized for sentiment analysis although they still provide important features in the traditional setting. This paper introduces a novel approach to sentiment analysis that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Bonggun Shin , Timothy Lee , Jinho D. Choi

Knowledge Graphs, such as Wikidata, comprise structural and textual knowledge in order to represent knowledge. For each of the two modalities dedicated approaches for graph embedding and language models learn patterns that allow for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mojtaba Nayyeri , Zihao Wang , Mst. Mahfuja Akter , Mirza Mohtashim Alam , Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Jens Lehmann , Steffen Staab

Token representation strategies within large-scale neural architectures often rely on contextually refined embeddings, yet conventional approaches seldom encode structured relationships explicitly within token interactions. Self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 James Blades , Frederick Somerfield , William Langley , Susan Everingham , Maurice Witherington

Many recent named entity recognition (NER) studies criticize flat NER for its non-overlapping assumption, and switch to investigating nested NER. However, existing nested NER models heavily rely on training data annotated with nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Enwei Zhu , Yiyang Liu , Ming Jin , Jinpeng Li

Neural IR has advanced through two distinct paths: entity-oriented approaches leveraging knowledge graphs and multi-vector models capturing fine-grained semantics. We introduce QDER, a neural re-ranking model that unifies these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shubham Chatterjee , Jeff Dalton

This paper evaluates Few-Shot Prompting with Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition (NER). Traditional NER systems rely on extensive labeled datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to obtain. Few-Shot Prompting or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hédi Zeghidi , Ludovic Moncla

Recent work in learning ontologies (hierarchical and partially-ordered structures) has leveraged the intrinsic geometry of spaces of learned representations to make predictions that automatically obey complex structural constraints. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Xiang Li , Luke Vilnis , Andrew McCallum

In this study, we address one of the challenges of developing NER models for scholarly domains, namely the scarcity of suitable labeled data. We experiment with an approach using predictions from a fine-tuned LLM model to aid non-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Julia Evans , Sameer Sadruddin , Jennifer D'Souza