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Nested named entity recognition identifies entities contained within other entities, but requires expensive multi-level annotation. While flat NER corpora exist abundantly, nested resources remain scarce. We investigate whether models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Igor Rozhkov , Natalia Loukachevitch

We introduce FewTopNER, a novel framework that integrates few-shot named entity recognition (NER) with topic-aware contextual modeling to address the challenges of cross-lingual and low-resource scenarios. FewTopNER leverages a shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ibrahim Bouabdallaoui , Fatima Guerouate , Samya Bouhaddour , Chaimae Saadi , Mohammed Sbihi

For several purposes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis or Chatbot, Named Entity Recognition (NER) holds an important role as it helps to determine and categorize entities in text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Thong Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Pramod Rao

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) is the task of detecting named entities of specific types (such as 'Person' or 'Medicine') without any training examples. Current research increasingly relies on large synthetic datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Max Ploner , Fabio Barth , Nicolaas Jedema , Alan Akbik

This paper describes an approach for automatic construction of dictionaries for Named Entity Recognition (NER) using large amounts of unlabeled data and a few seed examples. We use Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to obtain lower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Arvind Neelakantan , Michael Collins

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task that aims to identify structured information, which is often replete with complex, technical terms and a high degree of variability. Accurate and reliable NER can facilitate the extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Grace Yang , Zhiyi Li , Yadong Liu , Jungyeul Park

For languages with no annotated resources, transferring knowledge from rich-resource languages is an effective solution for named entity recognition (NER). While all existing methods directly transfer from source-learned model to a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Guoxin Wang , Hui Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin-Yew Lin

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to detect and classify the entity spans in the text. When entity spans overlap between each other, this problem is named as nested NER. Span-based methods have been widely used to tackle the nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Hang Yan , Yu Sun , Xiaonan Li , Xipeng Qiu

Recently, prompt-based learning for pre-trained language models has succeeded in few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) by exploiting prompts as task guidance to increase label efficiency. However, previous prompt-based methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Andy T. Liu , Wei Xiao , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Shang-Wen Li , Andrew Arnold

Recently, neural networks have shown promising results for named entity recognition (NER), which needs a number of labeled data to for model training. When meeting a new domain (target domain) for NER, there is no or a few labeled data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Lin Li , Yueqing Sun

Meta-learning methods have been widely used in few-shot named entity recognition (NER), especially prototype-based methods. However, the Other(O) class is difficult to be represented by a prototype vector because there are generally a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Chengcheng Han , Renyu Zhu , Jun Kuang , FengJiao Chen , Xiang Li , Ming Gao , Xuezhi Cao , Wei Wu

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. However, the widely-used sequence labeling framework is difficult to detect entities with nested structures. In this work, we view nested NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yao Fu , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for few-shot learning, where a classifier must learn to recognise new classes given only few examples from each. Our method, called the Relation Network (RN), is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Timothy M. Hospedales

This paper presents a simple and effective approach in low-resource named entity recognition (NER) based on multi-hop dependency trigger. Dependency trigger refer to salient nodes relative to a entity in the dependency graph of a context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jiangxu Wu

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in NLP systems for question answering, information retrieval, relation extraction, etc. NER systems have been studied and developed widely for decades, but accurate systems using deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard

Autonomous agents interacting with the real world need to learn new concepts efficiently and reliably. This requires learning in a low-data regime, which is a highly challenging problem. We address this task by introducing a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ardhendu Shekhar Tripathi , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Low-resource named entity recognition is still an open problem in NLP. Most state-of-the-art systems require tens of thousands of annotated sentences in order to obtain high performance. However, for most of the world's languages, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ryan Cotterell , Kevin Duh

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical component of Natural Language Processing with diverse applications in information extraction and conversational AI. However, NER in specific domains for low-resource languages faces challenges…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Do Minh Duc , Quan Xuan Truong , Viet Tran Hong , Le Hoang Anh , Mac Thi Minh Tra , Nguyen Van Thuy , Le Hai Ha , Vinh Nguyen Van

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert