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Recent advances in machine learning, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) such as BERT and GPT, provide rich contextual embeddings that improve text representation. However, current document clustering approaches often ignore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Imed Keraghel , Mohamed Nadif

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

When an entity name contains other names within it, the identification of all combinations of names can become difficult and expensive. We propose a new method to recognize not only outermost named entities but also inner nested ones. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Takashi Shibuya , Eduard Hovy

Despite the huge and continuous advances in computational linguistics, the lack of annotated data for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is still a challenging issue, especially in low-resource languages and when domain knowledge is required…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Valerio La Gatta , Vincenzo Moscato , Marco Postiglione , Giancarlo Sperlì

Recent Named Entity Recognition (NER) advancements have significantly enhanced text classification capabilities. This paper focuses on spoken NER, aimed explicitly at spoken document retrieval, an area not widely studied due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Moncef Benaicha , David Thulke , M. A. Tuğtekin Turan

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays an important role in a wide range of natural language processing tasks, such as relation extraction, question answering, etc. However, previous studies on NER are limited to particular genres, using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Mengdi Zhu , Zheye Deng , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Ming Zhang , William Yang Wang

With the proliferation of models for natural language processing tasks, it is even harder to understand the differences between models and their relative merits. Simply looking at differences between holistic metrics such as accuracy, BLEU,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jinlan Fu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Named Entity Recognition (NER) models capable of Continual Learning (CL) are realistically valuable in areas where entity types continuously increase (e.g., personal assistants). Meanwhile the learning paradigm of NER advances to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yunan Zhang , Qingcai Chen

The information bottleneck (IB) principle has been proven effective in various NLP applications. The existing work, however, only used either generative or information compression models to improve the performance of the target task. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Nhung T. H. Nguyen , Makoto Miwa , Sophia Ananiadou

Deep learning has yielded state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks including named entity recognition (NER). However, this typically requires large amounts of labeled data. In this work, we demonstrate that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yanyao Shen , Hyokun Yun , Zachary C. Lipton , Yakov Kronrod , Animashree Anandkumar

To tackle Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks, supervised methods need to obtain sufficient cleanly annotated data, which is labor and time consuming. On the contrary, distantly supervised methods acquire automatically annotated data using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shifeng Liu , Yifang Sun , Bing Li , Wei Wang , Xiang Zhao

The task of named entity recognition (NER) is normally divided into nested NER and flat NER depending on whether named entities are nested or not. Models are usually separately developed for the two tasks, since sequence labeling models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoya Li , Jingrong Feng , Yuxian Meng , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

We present a simple yet effective method to train a named entity recognition (NER) model that operates on business telephone conversation transcripts that contain noise due to the nature of spoken conversation and artifacts of automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xue-Yong Fu , Cheng Chen , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Shashi Bhushan TN , Simon Corston-Oliver

Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is a burgeoning area, which involves updating an existing model by incorporating new entity types sequentially. Nevertheless, continual learning approaches are often severely afflicted by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Duzhen Zhang , Wei Cong , Jiahua Dong , Yahan Yu , Xiuyi Chen , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Recent works treat named entity recognition as a reading comprehension task, constructing type-specific queries manually to extract entities. This paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongliang Shen , Xiaobin Wang , Zeqi Tan , Guangwei Xu , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that plays a crucial role in information extraction, question answering, and knowledge-based systems. Traditional deep learning-based NER models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Heming Zhang , Wenyu Li , Di Huang , Yinjie Tang , Yixin Chen , Philip Payne , Fuhai Li

Building real-world complex Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems is a challenging task. This is due to the complexity and ambiguity of named entities that appear in various contexts such as short input sentences, emerging entities, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Abdellah El Mekki , Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Mohammed Akallouch , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

Named entity recognition is a fundamental task in natural language processing, identifying the span and category of entities in unstructured texts. The traditional sequence labeling methodology ignores the nested entities, i.e. entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Xueru Wen , Changjiang Zhou , Haotian Tang , Luguang Liang , Yu Jiang , Hong Qi

Recent named entity recognition (NER) models often rely on human-annotated datasets, requiring the significant engagement of professional knowledge on the target domain and entities. This research introduces an ask-to-generate approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jinhyuk Lee , Jaewoo Kang

In this study, a novel method for extracting named entities and relations from unstructured text based on the table representation is presented. By using contextualized word embeddings, the proposed method computes representations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Youmi Ma , Tatsuya Hiraoka , Naoaki Okazaki