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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

Named entity recognition (NER) is usually developed and tested on text from well-written sources. However, in intelligent voice assistants, where NER is an important component, input to NER may be noisy because of user or speech recognition…

Objective: This study quantifies the capabilities of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for clinical named entity recognition (NER) tasks and proposes task-specific prompts to improve their performance. Materials and Methods: We evaluated these models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yan Hu , Qingyu Chen , Jingcheng Du , Xueqing Peng , Vipina Kuttichi Keloth , Xu Zuo , Yujia Zhou , Zehan Li , Xiaoqian Jiang , Zhiyong Lu , Kirk Roberts , Hua Xu

Recently, neural methods have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks for many languages without the need for manually crafted features. However, these models still require manually annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 M Saiful Bari , Shafiq Joty , Prathyusha Jwalapuram

Named entity recognition is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing, especially for informal and noisy social media text. Chinese word boundaries are also entity boundaries, therefore, named entity recognition for Chinese text can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Zhaoheng Gong , Ping Chen , Jiang Zhou

There is an increasing interest in studying natural language and computer code together, as large corpora of programming texts become readily available on the Internet. For example, StackOverflow currently has over 15 million programming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jeniya Tabassum , Mounica Maddela , Wei Xu , Alan Ritter

For readability assessment, traditional methods mainly employ machine learning classifiers with hundreds of linguistic features. Although the deep learning model has become the prominent approach for almost all NLP tasks, it is less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenbiao Li , Ziyang Wang , Yunfang Wu

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely applicable natural language processing task and building block of question answering, topic modeling, information retrieval, etc. In the medical domain, NER plays a crucial role by extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are supervised machine learning models that require large amounts of manually annotated data to achieve high accuracy. However, annotating NER data by human is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jian Ni , Georgiana Dinu , Radu Florian

Named entity recognition (NER) stands as a fundamental and pivotal task within the realm of Natural Language Processing. Particularly within the domain of Biomedical Method NER, this task presents notable challenges, stemming from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chen Tang , Bohao Yang , Kun Zhao , Bo Lv , Chenghao Xiao , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

Recent studies have shown effectiveness in using neural networks for Chinese word segmentation. However, these models rely on large-scale data and are less effective for low-resource datasets because of insufficient training data. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun

Named Entity Recognition (NER) models play a crucial role in various NLP tasks, including information extraction (IE) and text understanding. In academic writing, references to machine learning models and datasets are fundamental components…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Wolfgang Otto , Matthäus Zloch , Lu Gan , Saurav Karmakar , Stefan Dietze

Recent pretraining models in Chinese neglect two important aspects specific to the Chinese language: glyph and pinyin, which carry significant syntax and semantic information for language understanding. In this work, we propose ChineseBERT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zijun Sun , Xiaoya Li , Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Qing He , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Chinese word segmentation is necessary to provide word-level information for Chinese named entity recognition (NER) systems. However, segmentation error propagation is a challenge for Chinese NER while processing colloquial data like social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Shengbin Jia , Ling Ding , Xiaojun Chen , Shijia E , Yang Xiang

Named Entity Recognition has traditionally been a key task in natural language processing, aiming to identify and extract important terms from unstructured text data. However, a notable challenge for contemporary deep-learning NER models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tzu-Chieh Chen , Wen-Yang Lin

We study the named entity recognition (NER) problem under the extremely weak supervision (XWS) setting, where only one example entity per type is given in a context-free way. While one can see that XWS is lighter than one-shot in terms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Letian Peng , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang

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

Most state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems rely on handcrafted features and on the output of other NLP tasks such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging and text chunking. In this work we propose a language-independent NER system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Victor Guimarães

Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is an important task for Chinese NLP. Recently, many neural network based methods have been proposed for CWS. However, these methods require a large number of labeled sentences for model training, and usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Junxin Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

The use of LLMs for natural language processing has become a popular trend in the past two years, driven by their formidable capacity for context comprehension and learning, which has inspired a wave of research from academics and industry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Faren Yan , Peng Yu , Xin Chen