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Large Language Models (LLMs) have provided a new pathway for Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. Compared with fine-tuning, LLM-powered prompting methods avoid the need for training, conserve substantial computational resources, and rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yongjian Tang , Rakebul Hasan , Thomas Runkler

Despite the recent success of two-stage prototypical networks in few-shot named entity recognition (NER), challenges such as over/under-detected false spans in the span detection stage and unaligned entity prototypes in the type…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Quanjiang Guo , Yihong Dong , Ling Tian , Zhao Kang , Yu Zhang , Sijie Wang

Recent advances in prompt-based learning have shown strong results on few-shot text classification by using cloze-style templates. Similar attempts have been made on named entity recognition (NER) which manually design templates to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Dong-Ho Lee , Akshen Kadakia , Kangmin Tan , Mahak Agarwal , Xinyu Feng , Takashi Shibuya , Ryosuke Mitani , Toshiyuki Sekiya , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren

Few-shot NER needs to effectively capture information from limited instances and transfer useful knowledge from external resources. In this paper, we propose a self-describing mechanism for few-shot NER, which can effectively leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jiawei Chen , Qing Liu , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Few-Shot Cross-Domain NER is the process of leveraging knowledge from data-rich source domains to perform entity recognition on data scarce target domains. Most previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches use pre-trained language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Subhadip Nandi , Neeraj Agrawal

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Classification (RC) are important steps in extracting information from unstructured text and formatting it into a machine-readable format. We present a survey of recent deep learning models that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sakher Khalil Alqaaidi , Elika Bozorgi , Afsaneh Shams , Krzysztof Kochut

In nested Named entity recognition (NER), entities are nested with each other, and thus requiring more data annotations to address. This leads to the development of few-shot nested NER, where the prevalence of pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Meishan Zhang , Bin Wang , Hao Fei , Min Zhang

Few-shot named entity recognition can identify new types of named entities based on a few labeled examples. Previous methods employing token-level or span-level metric learning suffer from the computational burden and a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Congying Liu , Gaosheng Wang , Peipei Liu , Xingyuan Wei , Hongsong Zhu

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) exploits only a handful of annotations to identify and classify named entity mentions. Prototypical network shows superior performance on few-shot NER. However, existing prototypical methods fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Meihan Tong , Shuai Wang , Bin Xu , Yixin Cao , Minghui Liu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Entity recognition is a fundamental task in understanding document images. Traditional sequence labeling frameworks treat the entity types as class IDs and rely on extensive data and high-quality annotations to learn semantics which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang

Incorporating large-scale pre-trained models with the prototypical neural networks is a de-facto paradigm in few-shot named entity recognition. Existing methods, unfortunately, are not aware of the fact that embeddings from pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Youcheng Huang , Wenqiang Lei , Jie Fu , Jiancheng Lv

Supervised machine learning assumes the availability of fully-labeled data, but in many cases, such as low-resource languages, the only data available is partially annotated. We study the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Stephen Mayhew , Snigdha Chaturvedi , Chen-Tse Tsai , Dan Roth

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Few-Shot setting is imperative for entity tagging in low resource domains. Existing approaches only learn class-specific semantic features and intermediate representations from source domains. This affects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Arzoo Katiyar , Rebecca J. Passonneau , Rui Zhang

State of the art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models have achieved an impressive ability to extract common phrases from text that belong to labels such as location, organization, time, and person. However, typical NER systems that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandra Loessberg-Zahl

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, which is significant and fundamental for various downstream applications, e.g., knowledge base completion, question answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Ning Liu , Haitao Yuan , Wei Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Jianyong Wang

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying named entities based on only few labeled instances. Current few-shot NER methods focus on leveraging existing datasets in the rich-resource domains which might fail in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zeng Yang , Linhai Zhang , Deyu Zhou

More recently, Named Entity Recognition hasachieved great advances aided by pre-trainingapproaches such as BERT. However, currentpre-training techniques focus on building lan-guage modeling objectives to learn a gen-eral representation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mengge Xue , Bowen Yu , Zhenyu Zhang , Tingwen Liu , Yue Zhang , Bin Wang

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to identify named entities with very little annotated data. Previous methods solve this problem based on token-wise classification, which ignores the information of entity boundaries, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jianing Wang , Chengcheng Han , Chengyu Wang , Chuanqi Tan , Minghui Qiu , Songfang Huang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) exploits limited annotated instances to identify named mentions. Effectively transferring the internal or external resources thus becomes the key to few-shot NER. While the existing prompt tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiang Liu , Hao Fei , Fei Li , Jingye Li , Bobo Li , Liang Zhao , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Most state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) rely on the availability of large amounts of labeled data, making them challenging to extend to new, lower-resourced languages. However, there are now several proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Aditi Chaudhary , Jiateng Xie , Zaid Sheikh , Graham Neubig , Jaime G. Carbonell