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The MultiCoNER \RNum{2} shared task aims to tackle multilingual named entity recognition (NER) in fine-grained and noisy scenarios, and it inherits the semantic ambiguity and low-context setting of the MultiCoNER \RNum{1} task. To cope with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zeqi Tan , Shen Huang , Zixia Jia , Jiong Cai , Yinghui Li , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang , Kewei Tu , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Yong Jiang

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

This paper summarizes the CLaC submission for the MultiCoNER 2 task which concerns the recognition of complex, fine-grained named entities. We compare two popular approaches for NER, namely Sequence Labeling and Span Prediction. We find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Harsh Verma , Sabine Bergler

Most weakly supervised named entity recognition (NER) models rely on domain-specific dictionaries provided by experts. This approach is infeasible in many domains where dictionaries do not exist. While a phrase retrieval model was used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jaewoo Kang

The construction of experimental datasets is essential for expanding the scope of data-driven scientific discovery. Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have facilitated automatic extraction of structured data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Junhyeong Lee , Jong Min Yuk , Chan-Woo Lee

Acknowledgments in scientific papers may give an insight into aspects of the scientific community, such as reward systems, collaboration patterns, and hidden research trends. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the performance of different…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Nina Smirnova , Philipp Mayr

Domain-specific Named Entity Recognition (NER), whose goal is to recognize domain-specific entities and their categories, provides an important support for constructing domain knowledge graphs. Currently, deep learning-based methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Le Xiao , Yunfei Xu , Jing Zhao

Recent studies have explored various approaches for treating candidate named entity spans as both source and target sequences in named entity recognition (NER) by leveraging large language models (LLMs). Although previous approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sungwoo Han , Hyeyeon Kim , Jingun Kwon , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Manabu Okumura

When extracting information from handwritten documents, text transcription and named entity recognition are usually faced as separate subsequent tasks. This has the disadvantage that errors in the first module affect heavily the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Manuel Carbonell , Mauricio Villegas , Alicia Fornés , Josep Lladós

This paper presents our findings from participating in the SMM4H Shared Task 2021. We addressed Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Text Classification. To address NER we explored BiLSTM-CRF with Stacked Heterogeneous Embeddings and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Usama Yaseen , Stefan Langer

Entity Linking (EL), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

We describe our entry for the Systematic Review Information Extraction track of the 2018 Text Analysis Conference. Our solution is an end-to-end, deep learning, sequence tagging model based on the BI-LSTM-CRF architecture. However, we use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Artur Nowak , Paweł Kunstman

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

For languages with no annotated resources, transferring knowledge from rich-resource languages is an effective solution for named entity recognition (NER). While all existing methods directly transfer from source-learned model to a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Guoxin Wang , Hui Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin-Yew Lin

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 often fails in idiosyncratic domains. That causes a problem for depending tasks, such as entity linking and relation extraction. We propose a generic and robust approach for high-recall named entity recognition. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Sebastian Arnold , Felix A. Gers , Torsten Kilias , Alexander Löser

Recent work in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision has been using textual information -- e.g., entity names and descriptions -- available in knowledge graphs to ground neural models to high-quality structured data. However, when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Simone Conia , Min Li , Daniel Lee , Umar Farooq Minhas , Ihab Ilyas , Yunyao Li

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 Disambiguation (NED) refers to the task of resolving multiple named entity mentions in a document to their correct references in a knowledge base (KB) (e.g., Wikipedia). In this paper, we propose a novel embedding method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Ikuya Yamada , Hiroyuki Shindo , Hideaki Takeda , Yoshiyasu Takefuji

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-established task of information extraction which has been studied for decades. More recently, studies reporting NER experiments on social media texts have emerged. On the other hand, stance detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Dilek Küçük