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Nested Named Entity Recognition (NNER) has been a long-term challenge to researchers as an important sub-area of Named Entity Recognition. NNER is where one entity may be part of a longer entity, and this may happen on multiple levels, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiuding Yang , Jinwen Luo , Weidong Guo , Jerry Chen , Di Niu , Yu Xu

Dependency tree structures capture long-distance and syntactic relationships between words in a sentence. The syntactic relations (e.g., nominal subject, object) can potentially infer the existence of certain named entities. In addition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhanming Jie , Wei Lu

Motivation: Biomedical named-entity normalization involves connecting biomedical entities with distinct database identifiers in order to facilitate data integration across various fields of biology. Existing systems for biomedical named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zainab Awan , Tim Kahlke , Peter Ralph , Paul Kennedy

Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the best studied tasks in natural language processing. However, most approaches are not capable of handling nested structures which are common in many applications. In this paper we introduce a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Joseph Fisher , Andreas Vlachos

Constituency parsing and nested named entity recognition (NER) are similar tasks since they both aim to predict a collection of nested and non-crossing spans. In this work, we cast nested NER to constituency parsing and propose a novel…

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

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems recognize entities using a few labeled training examples. The general pipeline consists of a span detector to identify entity spans in text and an entity-type classifier to assign types to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Chang Tian , Wenpeng Yin , Dan Li , Marie-Francine Moens

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

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

Prompt learning is a new paradigm for utilizing pre-trained language models and has achieved great success in many tasks. To adopt prompt learning in the NER task, two kinds of methods have been explored from a pair of symmetric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Shuhui Wu , Wenqi Zhang , Rongsheng Zhang , Yadong Xi , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

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 conducted a human subject study of named entity recognition on a noisy corpus of conversational music recommendation queries, with many irregular and novel named entities. We evaluated the human NER linguistic behaviour in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

In this work, we study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) in a low resource scenario, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot settings. Built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, we propose a novel NER framework, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yaqing Wang , Haoda Chu , Chao Zhang , Jing Gao

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a foundational NLP task that aims to provide class labels like Person, Location, Organisation, Time, and Number to words in free text. Named Entities can also be multi-word expressions where the additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Rudra Murthy , Pallab Bhattacharjee , Rahul Sharnagat , Jyotsana Khatri , Diptesh Kanojia , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

When combined with In-Context Learning, a technique that enables models to adapt to new tasks by incorporating task-specific examples or demonstrations directly within the input prompt, autoregressive language models have achieved good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Enzo Shiraishi , Raphael Y. de Camargo , Henrique L. P. Silva , Ronaldo C. Prati

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task in natural language processing, yet it remains particularly challenging for discontinuous entities. The primary difficulty lies in text segmentation, as traditional methods often missegment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wen-Fang Su , Hsiao-Wei Chou , Wen-Yang Lin

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

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

Classifying semantic relations between entity pairs in sentences is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most previous models for relation classification rely on the high-level lexical and syntactic features obtained by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Joohong Lee , Sangwoo Seo , Yong Suk Choi

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and domains. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying and classifying proper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shibingfeng Zhang , Giovanni Colavizza

The MultiCoNER shared task aims at detecting semantically ambiguous and complex named entities in short and low-context settings for multiple languages. The lack of contexts makes the recognition of ambiguous named entities challenging. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xinyu Wang , Yongliang Shen , Jiong Cai , Tao Wang , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang , Kewei Tu , Wei Lu , Yong Jiang