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India's rich cultural and linguistic diversity poses various challenges in the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly in Named Entity Recognition (NER). NER is a NLP task that aims to identify and classify tokens into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mohammed Amaan Dhamaskar , Rasika Ransing

Named entity recognition (NER) is an information extraction technique that aims to locate and classify named entities (e.g., organizations, locations,...) within a document into predefined categories. Correctly identifying these phrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tran Thi Hong Hanh , Antoine Doucet , Nicolas Sidere , Jose G. Moreno , Senja Pollak

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental component in many applications, such as Web Search and Voice Assistants. Although deep neural networks greatly improve the performance of NER, due to the requirement of large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shining Liang , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Linjun Shou , Wanli Zuo , Xianglin Zuo , Daxin Jiang

Constituency parsing and nested named entity recognition (NER) are similar tasks since they both aim to predict a collection of nested and non-crossing spans. In this work, we cast nested NER to constituency parsing and propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Songlin Yang , Kewei Tu

In the last years, the consolidation of deep neural network architectures for information extraction in document images has brought big improvements in the performance of each of the tasks involved in this process, consisting of text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Manuel Carbonell , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas , Josep Lladós

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

Information extraction(IE) is a crucial subfield within natural language processing. In this study, we introduce a Sentence Classification and Named Entity Recognition Multi-task (SCNM) approach that combines Sentence Classification (SC)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Chengguang Gan , Qinghao Zhang , Tatsunori Mori

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition presents significant challenges due to the complexity of biomedical terminology and inconsistencies in annotation across datasets. This paper introduces SRU-NER (Slot-based Recurrent Unit NER), a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 João Ruano , Gonçalo M. Correia , Leonor Barreiros , Afonso Mendes

Mining entity synonym sets (i.e., sets of terms referring to the same entity) is an important task for many entity-leveraging applications. Previous work either rank terms based on their similarity to a given query term, or treats the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jiaming Shen , Ruiliang Lyu , Xiang Ren , Michelle Vanni , Brian Sadler , Jiawei Han

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

We consider the problem of conversational question answering over a large-scale knowledge base. To handle huge entity vocabulary of a large-scale knowledge base, recent neural semantic parsing based approaches usually decompose the task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Tao Shen , Xiubo Geng , Tao Qin , Daya Guo , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Guodong Long , Daxin Jiang

While named entity recognition (NER) is a key task in natural language processing, most approaches only target flat entities, ignoring nested structures which are common in many scenarios. Most existing nested NER methods traverse all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Huiqiang Jiang , Guoxin Wang , Weile Chen , Chengxi Zhang , Börje F. Karlsson

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key step in the creation of structured data from digitised historical documents. Traditional NER approaches deal with flat named entities, whereas entities often are nested. For example, a postal address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Solenn Tual , Nathalie Abadie , J Chazalon , Bertrand Duménieu , Edwin Carlinet

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

Sequential labeling-based NER approaches restrict each word belonging to at most one entity mention, which will face a serious problem when recognizing nested entity mentions. In this paper, we propose to resolve this problem by modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hongyu Lin , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Named entity recognition (NER) is an extensively studied task that extracts and classifies named entities in a text. NER is crucial not only in downstream language processing applications such as relation extraction and question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Gizem Aras , Didem Makaroglu , Seniz Demir , Altan Cakir

Entity detection and tracking (EDT) is the task of identifying textual mentions of real-world entities in documents, extending the named entity detection and coreference resolution task by considering mentions other than names (pronouns,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations). In this survey, we first present an overview of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Imed Keraghel , Stanislas Morbieu , Mohamed Nadif

With the AI revolution in place, the trend for building automated systems to support professionals in different domains such as the open source software systems, healthcare systems, banking systems, transportation systems and many others…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Somnath Banerjee , Avik Dutta , Aaditya Agrawal , Rima Hazra , Animesh Mukherjee

Recurrent Neural Network models are the state-of-the-art for Named Entity Recognition (NER). We present two innovations to improve the performance of these models. The first innovation is the introduction of residual connections between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Quan Tran , Andrew MacKinlay , Antonio Jimeno Yepes