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Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Named entity recognition on the in-domain supervised and few-shot settings have been extensively discussed in the NLP community and made significant progress. However, cross-domain NER, a more common task in practical scenarios, still poses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Ke Bao , Chonghuan Yang

Despite impressive results of language models for named entity recognition (NER), their generalization to varied textual genres, a growing entity type set, and new entities remains a challenge. Collecting thousands of annotations in each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

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

Named entity recognition (NER) is an important research problem in natural language processing. There are three types of NER tasks, including flat, nested and discontinuous entity recognition. Most previous sequential labeling models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ying Mo , Hongyin Tang , Jiahao Liu , Qifan Wang , Zenglin Xu , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Zhoujun Li

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. Traditional NER research only deals with flat entities and ignores nested entities. The span-based methods treat entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Zeqi Tan , Shuai Zhang , Wen Wang , Weiming Lu

We created this CORD-NER dataset with comprehensive named entity recognition (NER) on the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) corpus (2020-03-13). This CORD-NER dataset covers 75 fine-grained entity types: In addition to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xuan Wang , Xiangchen Song , Bangzheng Li , Yingjun Guan , Jiawei Han

Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in information extraction, which has a significant impact on downstream applications. Due to the lack of natural separators in Chinese, previous NER methods mostly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yaqiong Qiao , Shixuan Peng

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

Named entity recognition (NER) is a vital task in spoken language understanding, which aims to identify mentions of named entities in text e.g., from transcribed speech. Existing neural models for NER rely mostly on dedicated word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Abdalghani Abujabal , Judith Gaspers

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

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

The growth rate in the amount of biomedical documents is staggering. Unlocking information trapped in these documents can enable researchers and practitioners to operate confidently in the information world. Biomedical NER, the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xiang Dai

Chinese named entity recognition (CNER) is an important task in Chinese natural language processing field. However, CNER is very challenging since Chinese entity names are highly context-dependent. In addition, Chinese texts lack delimiters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Fangzhao Wu , Junxin Liu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Domain adaptation provides a powerful set of model training techniques given domain-specific training data and supplemental data with unknown relevance. The techniques are useful when users need to develop models with data from varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Justin Chen , Edward Gan , Kexin Rong , Sahaana Suri , Peter Bailis

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

The cross-domain recommendation technique is an effective way of alleviating the data sparse issue in recommender systems by leveraging the knowledge from relevant domains. Transfer learning is a class of algorithms underlying these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Guangneng Hu , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Everyone makes mistakes. So do human annotators when curating labels for named entity recognition (NER). Such label mistakes might hurt model training and interfere model comparison. In this study, we dive deep into one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Lihao Lu , Jiacheng Liu , Jiawei Han

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

While neural network-based models have achieved impressive performance on a large body of NLP tasks, the generalization behavior of different models remains poorly understood: Does this excellent performance imply a perfect generalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jinlan Fu , Pengfei Liu , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang