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Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems recognize entities using a few labeled training examples. The general pipeline consists of a span detector to identify entity spans in text and an entity-type classifier to assign types to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Chang Tian , Wenpeng Yin , Dan Li , Marie-Francine Moens

Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is a burgeoning area, which involves updating an existing model by incorporating new entity types sequentially. Nevertheless, continual learning approaches are often severely afflicted by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Duzhen Zhang , Wei Cong , Jiahua Dong , Yahan Yu , Xiuyi Chen , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang

Few-Shot learning aims to train and optimize a model that can adapt to unseen visual classes with only a few labeled examples. The existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods, heavily rely only on visual data, thus fail to capture the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Named entity recognition (NER) systems that perform well require task-related and manually annotated datasets. However, they are expensive to develop, and are thus limited in size. As there already exists a large number of NER datasets that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Nargiza Nosirova , Mingbin Xu , Hui Jiang

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and classifying entities in sentences into pre-defined types. It plays a crucial role in various research fields, including entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dongsheng Wang , Xiaoqin Feng , Zeming Liu , Chuan Wang

A significant shortcoming of current state-of-the-art (SOTA) named-entity recognition (NER) systems is their lack of generalization to unseen domains, which poses a major problem since obtaining labeled data for NER in a new domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nguyen Van Hoang , Soeren Hougaard Mulvad , Dexter Neo Yuan Rong , Yang Yue

Visually-rich document entity retrieval (VDER), which extracts key information (e.g. date, address) from document images like invoices and receipts, has become an important topic in industrial NLP applications. The emergence of new document…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jiayi Chen , Hanjun Dai , Bo Dai , Aidong Zhang , Wei Wei

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in numerous downstream applications. Recently, researchers have employed pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) to address this task. However, fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yufei Zhao , Xiaoshi Zhong , Erik Cambria , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Few-shot learning has made impressive strides in addressing the crucial challenges of recognizing unknown samples from novel classes in target query sets and managing visual shifts between domains. However, existing techniques fall short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Debabrata Pal , Deeptej More , Sai Bhargav , Dipesh Tamboli , Vaneet Aggarwal , Biplab Banerjee

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) enables us to build a NER system for a new domain using very few labeled examples. However, existing prototypical networks for this task suffer from roughly estimated label dependency and closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Bin Ji , Shasha Li , Shaoduo Gan , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Huijun Liu

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

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods learn to map data points such as images into non-parametric representation space without requiring labels. While highly successful, current methods require a large amount of data in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ali Lotfi Rezaabad , Sidharth Kumar , Sriram Vishwanath , Jonathan I. Tamir

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

This paper proposes a few-shot method based on Faster R-CNN and representation learning for object detection in aerial images. The two classification branches of Faster R-CNN are replaced by prototypical networks for online adaptation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Pierre Le Jeune , Mustapha Lebbah , Anissa Mokraoui , Hanene Azzag

Recently, prompt-based learning for pre-trained language models has succeeded in few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) by exploiting prompts as task guidance to increase label efficiency. However, previous prompt-based methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Andy T. Liu , Wei Xiao , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Shang-Wen Li , Andrew Arnold

Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kosuke Nishida , Naoki Yoshinaga , Kyosuke Nishida

Named Entity Recognition (NER) involves identifying and categorizing named entities within textual data. Despite its significance, NER research has often overlooked low-resource languages like Myanmar (Burmese), primarily due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kaung Lwin Thant , Kwankamol Nongpong , Ye Kyaw Thu , Thura Aung , Khaing Hsu Wai , Thazin Myint Oo