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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing, concerned with identifying spans of text expressing references to entities. NER research is often focused on flat entities only (flat NER), ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Juntao Yu , Bernd Bohnet , Massimo Poesio

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is essential in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Traditional NER models are effective but limited to a set of predefined entity types. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

Few shot learning aims to solve the data scarcity problem. If there is a domain shift between the test set and the training set, their performance will decrease a lot. This setting is called Cross-domain few-shot learning. However, this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Fupin Yao

Deep neural network models have helped named entity (NE) recognition achieve amazing performance without handcrafting features. However, existing systems require large amounts of human annotated training data. Efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ying Luo , Hai Zhao , Junlang Zhan

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are statistical machine learning models that have strong generalization capability (i.e., can recognize unseen entities that do not appear in training data) based on lexical and…

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks through in-context learning but often under-perform in Named Entity Recognition (NER), especially for lower-resource languages like Portuguese. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 João Lucas Luz Lima Sarcinelli , Diego Furtado Silva

For languages with no annotated resources, unsupervised transfer of natural language processing models such as named-entity recognition (NER) from resource-rich languages would be an appealing capability. However, differences in words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jiateng Xie , Zhilin Yang , Graham Neubig , Noah A. Smith , Jaime Carbonell

Transfer learning has led to large gains in performance for nearly all NLP tasks while making downstream models easier and faster to train. This has also been extended to low-resourced languages, with some success. We investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Michael Beukman , Manuel Fokam

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) presents unique challenges due to specialized vocabularies, the sheer volume of entities, and the continuous emergence of novel entities. Traditional NER models, constrained by fixed taxonomies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Anthony Yazdani , Ihor Stepanov , Douglas Teodoro

One-shot learning focuses on adapting pretrained models to recognize newly introduced and unseen classes based on a single labeled image. While variations of few-shot and zero-shot learning exist, one-shot learning remains a challenging yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyle Stein , Andrew A. Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

This paper presents a novel framework, MGNER, for Multi-Grained Named Entity Recognition where multiple entities or entity mentions in a sentence could be non-overlapping or totally nested. Different from traditional approaches regarding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Tao Yang , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Xian Wu , Wei Fan , Fenglong Ma , Philip Yu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in domains like e-commerce is an understudied problem due to the lack of annotated datasets. Recognizing novel entity types in this domain, such as products, components, and attributes, is challenging because…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Hanchu Zhang , Leonhard Hennig , Christoph Alt , Changjian Hu , Yao Meng , Chao Wang

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied in sentence-level few-shot learning tasks, mostly owing to the sophisticated design of templates and label words. However, when applied to token-level labeling tasks such as NER, it would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ruotian Ma , Xin Zhou , Tao Gui , Yiding Tan , Linyang Li , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

In some of object recognition problems, labeled data may not be available for all categories. Zero-shot learning utilizes auxiliary information (also called signatures) describing each category in order to find a classifier that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Seyed Mohsen Shojaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

We study the problem of few shot learning for named entity recognition. Specifically, we leverage the semantic information in the names of the labels as a way of giving the model additional signal and enriched priors. We propose a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jie Ma , Miguel Ballesteros , Srikanth Doss , Rishita Anubhai , Sunil Mallya , Yaser Al-Onaizan , Dan Roth

Benefiting from strong generalization ability, pre-trained vision language models (VLMs), e.g., CLIP, have been widely utilized in zero-shot scene understanding. Unlike simple recognition tasks, grounded situation recognition (GSR) requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Jiaming Lei , Lin Li , Chunping Wang , Jun Xiao , Long Chen

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…

Exploring the application of powerful large language models (LLMs) on the named entity recognition (NER) task has drawn much attention recently. This work pushes the performance boundary of zero-shot NER with LLMs by proposing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tingyu Xie , Qi Li , Yan Zhang , Zuozhu Liu , Hongwei Wang

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to identify mentions of rigid designators from text belonging to predefined semantic types such as person, location, organization etc. NER always serves as the foundation for many natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jing Li , Aixin Sun , Jianglei Han , Chenliang Li

Clinical named entity recognition (NER) aims to retrieve important entities within clinical narratives. Recent works have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance in this task. While previous works focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Reza Averly , Xia Ning