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The traditional entity extraction problem lies in the ability of extracting named entities from plain text using natural language processing techniques and intensive training from large document collections. Examples of named entities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-11-21 Anne-Marie Vercoustre , James A. Thom , Jovan Pehcevski

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

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

For a news content distribution platform like Dailyhunt, Named Entity Recognition is a pivotal task for building better user recommendation and notification algorithms. Apart from identifying names, locations, organisations from the news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Swapnil Ashok Jadhav

We introduce KyrgyzNER, the first manually annotated named entity recognition dataset for the Kyrgyz language. Comprising 1,499 news articles from the 24.KG news portal, the dataset contains 10,900 sentences and 39,075 entity mentions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Timur Turatali , Anton Alekseev , Gulira Jumalieva , Gulnara Kabaeva , Sergey Nikolenko

This paper presents a state-of-the-art system for Vietnamese Named Entity Recognition (NER). By incorporating automatic syntactic features with word embeddings as input for bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), our system,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Thai-Hoang Pham , Phuong Le-Hong

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a sub-task of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that distinguishes entities from unorganized text into predefined categorization. In recent years, a lot of Bangla NLP subtasks have received quite a lot of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Niloy Farhan , Saman Sarker Joy , Tafseer Binte Mannan , Farig Sadeque

Traditional information retrieval treats named entity recognition as a pre-indexing corpus annotation task, allowing entity tags to be indexed and used during search. Named entity taggers themselves are typically trained on thousands or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 John Foley , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , James Allan

The goal of this work is to improve the performance of a neural named entity recognition system by adding input features that indicate a word is part of a name included in a gazetteer. This article describes how to generate gazetteers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Chan Hee Song , Dawn Lawrie , Tim Finin , James Mayfield

Toxic content detection in online communication remains a significant challenge, with current solutions often inadvertently blocking valuable information, including medical terms and text related to minority groups. This paper presents a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Melania Berbatova , Tsvetoslav Vasev

In this paper we describe our submissions to the 2nd and 3rd SlavNER Shared Tasks held at BSNLP 2019 and BSNLP 2021, respectively. The tasks focused on the analysis of Named Entities in multilingual Web documents in Slavic languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Paweł Rychlikowski , Bartłomiej Najdecki , Adrian Łańcucki , Adam Kaczmarek

Nested named entity recognition identifies entities contained within other entities, but requires expensive multi-level annotation. While flat NER corpora exist abundantly, nested resources remain scarce. We investigate whether models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Igor Rozhkov , Natalia Loukachevitch

For several purposes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis or Chatbot, Named Entity Recognition (NER) holds an important role as it helps to determine and categorize entities in text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Thong Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Pramod Rao

In this work, we tackle the problem of Armenian named entity recognition, providing silver- and gold-standard datasets as well as establishing baseline results on popular models. We present a 163000-token named entity corpus automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Tsolak Ghukasyan , Garnik Davtyan , Karen Avetisyan , Ivan Andrianov

Recognizing named entities in a document is a key task in many NLP applications. Although current state-of-the-art approaches to this task reach a high performance on clean text (e.g. newswire genres), those algorithms dramatically degrade…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , A. Pastor López-Monroy , Fabio A. González , Thamar Solorio

Named Entity Recognition systems achieve remarkable performance on domains such as English news. It is natural to ask: What are these models actually learning to achieve this? Are they merely memorizing the names themselves? Or are they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Oshin Agarwal , Yinfei Yang , Byron C. Wallace , Ani Nenkova

Low-resource named entity recognition is still an open problem in NLP. Most state-of-the-art systems require tens of thousands of annotated sentences in order to obtain high performance. However, for most of the world's languages, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ryan Cotterell , Kevin Duh

We begin by introducing the Computer Science branch of Natural Language Processing, then narrowing the attention on its subbranch of Information Extraction and particularly on Named Entity Recognition, discussing briefly its main…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini , Elisabetta Fersini

Named Entity Recognition for social media data is challenging because of its inherent noisiness. In addition to improper grammatical structures, it contains spelling inconsistencies and numerous informal abbreviations. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , Suraj Maharjan , Adrian Pastor López-Monroy , Thamar Solorio

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves