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Zero-resource named entity recognition (NER) severely suffers from data scarcity in a specific domain or language. Most studies on zero-resource NER transfer knowledge from various data by fine-tuning on different auxiliary tasks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ying Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Named Entity Recognition (NER) has greatly advanced by the introduction of deep neural architectures. However, the success of these methods depends on large amounts of training data. The scarcity of publicly-available human-labeled datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Barbara Plank

Language model (LM) pretraining has led to consistent improvements in many NLP downstream tasks, including named entity recognition (NER). In this paper, we present T-NER (Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition), a Python library for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados

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 (NER) models often struggle with noisy inputs, such as those with spelling mistakes or errors generated by Optical Character Recognition processes, and learning a robust NER model is challenging. Existing robust NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Chaoyi Ai , Yong Jiang , Shen Huang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical component of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for extracting structured information from unstructured text. However, for low-resource languages like Catalan, the performance of NER systems often…

Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data. There have been efforts on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Xiaotao Gu , Teng Ren , Jiawei Han

Named entity recognition (NER) is evolving from a sequence labeling task into a generative paradigm with the rise of large language models (LLMs). We conduct a systematic evaluation of open-source LLMs on both flat and nested NER tasks. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qi Zhan , Yile Wang , Hui Huang

Existing deep active learning algorithms achieve impressive sampling efficiency on natural language processing tasks. However, they exhibit several weaknesses in practice, including (a) inability to use uncertainty sampling with black-box…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Haw-Shiuan Chang , Shankar Vembu , Sunil Mohan , Rheeya Uppaal , Andrew McCallum

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This paper aims to quantify how this diversity impacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Isabelle Augenstein , Leon Derczynski , Kalina Bontcheva

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental problem in natural language processing (NLP). However, the task of extracting longer entity spans (e.g., awards) from extended texts (e.g., homepages) is barely explored. Current NER methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yelin Chen , Fanjin Zhang , Jie Tang

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

Fine-tuning pretrained ASR models for specific domains is challenging when labeled data is scarce. But unlabeled audio and labeled data from related domains are often available. We propose an incremental semi-supervised learning pipeline…

Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Alankar Jain , Bhargavi Paranjape , Zachary C. Lipton

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

Crowdsourcing is regarded as one prospective solution for effective supervised learning, aiming to build large-scale annotated training data by crowd workers. Previous studies focus on reducing the influences from the noises of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Xin Zhang , Guangwei Xu , Yueheng Sun , Meishan Zhang , Pengjun Xie

Named entity recognition (NER) plays an important role in text-based information retrieval. In this paper, we combine Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) \cite{hochreiter1997,schuster1997} with Conditional Random Field (CRF)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Ngoc C. Lê , Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Anh-Duong Trinh

Named Entity Recognition (NER) from speech is among Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) tasks, aiming to extract semantic information from the speech signal. NER from speech is usually made through a two-step pipeline that consists of (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Boli Chen , Guangwei Xu , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Fei Huang

NER model has achieved promising performance on standard NER benchmarks. However, recent studies show that previous approaches may over-rely on entity mention information, resulting in poor performance on out-of-vocabulary (OOV) entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Xiao Wang , Shihan Dou , Limao Xiong , Yicheng Zou , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Xuanjing Huang

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