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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

Natural language processing (NLP) tasks (text classification, named entity recognition, etc.) have seen revolutionary improvements over the last few years. This is due to language models such as BERT that achieve deep knowledge transfer by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Lee Burke , Karl Pazdernik , Daniel Fortin , Benjamin Wilson , Rustam Goychayev , John Mattingly

Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems play a vital role in NLP applications such as machine translation, summarization, and question-answering. These systems identify named entities, which encompass real-world concepts like locations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Harsh Chaudhari , Anuja Patil , Dhanashree Lavekar , Pranav Khairnar , Raviraj Joshi , Sachin Pande

Recent advances in prompt-based learning have shown strong results on few-shot text classification by using cloze-style templates. Similar attempts have been made on named entity recognition (NER) which manually design templates to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Dong-Ho Lee , Akshen Kadakia , Kangmin Tan , Mahak Agarwal , Xinyu Feng , Takashi Shibuya , Ryosuke Mitani , Toshiyuki Sekiya , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren

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) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely studied task in natural language processing. Recently, a growing number of studies have focused on the nested NER. The span-based methods, considering the entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zeqi Tan , Yongliang Shen , Shuai Zhang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Named entity recognition (NER), which focuses on the extraction of semantically meaningful named entities and their semantic classes from text, serves as an indispensable component for several down-stream natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Zhanming Jie , Aldrian Obaja Muis , Wei Lu

Named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify mentions of named entities in an unstructured text and classify them into predefined named entity classes. While deep learning-based pre-trained language models help to achieve good predictive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ali Osman Berk Sapci , Oznur Tastan , Reyyan Yeniterzi

While pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT) have achieved impressive results on different natural language processing tasks, they have large numbers of parameters and suffer from big computational and memory costs, which make them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jin Xu , Xu Tan , Renqian Luo , Kaitao Song , Jian Li , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Named entity recognition (NER) is frequently addressed as a sequence classification task where each input consists of one sentence of text. It is nevertheless clear that useful information for the task can often be found outside of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jouni Luoma , Sampo Pyysalo

Currently, the most widespread neural network architecture for training language models is the so called BERT which led to improvements in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In general, the larger the number of parameters in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jochen Zöllner , Konrad Sperfeld , Christoph Wick , Roger Labahn

Although modern named entity recognition (NER) systems show impressive performance on standard datasets, they perform poorly when presented with noisy data. In particular, capitalization is a strong signal for entities in many languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Stephen Mayhew , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

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 availability of large amounts of computer-readable textual data and hardware that can process the data has shifted the focus of knowledge projects towards deep learning architecture. Natural Language Processing, particularly the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Arya Roy

Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) leverages knowledge transfer between languages to identify and classify named entities, making it particularly useful for low-resource languages. We show that the data-based cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Andrei Politov , Oleh Shkalikov , René Jäkel , Michael Färber

Cross-domain NER is a practical yet challenging problem since the data scarcity in the real-world scenario. A common practice is first to learn a NER model in a rich-resource general domain and then adapt the model to specific domains. Due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Junhao Zheng , Haibin Chen , Qianli Ma

This paper investigates the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) for extreme low-resource languages with only a few hundred tagged data samples. NER is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). A critical driver…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shashank Sonkar , Zichao Wang , Richard G. Baraniuk

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

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 with correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Diego Esteves , Rafael Peres , Jens Lehmann , Giulio Napolitano