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Recent research efforts have shown that neural architectures can be effective in conventional information extraction tasks such as named entity recognition, yielding state-of-the-art results on standard newswire datasets. However, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Bill Yuchen Lin , Wei Lu

Named entity recognition is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing, especially for informal and noisy social media text. Chinese word boundaries are also entity boundaries, therefore, named entity recognition for Chinese text can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Zhaoheng Gong , Ping Chen , Jiang Zhou

Deep Learning (DL) models proved themselves to perform extremely well on a wide variety of learning tasks, as they can learn useful patterns from large data sets. However, purely data-driven models might struggle when very difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Andrea Borghesi , Federico Baldo , Michela Milano

Sequence labeling remains a significant challenge in low-resource, domain-specific scenarios, particularly for character-dense languages like Chinese. Existing methods primarily focus on enhancing model comprehension and improving data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Peichao Lai , Jiaxin Gan , Feiyang Ye , Yilei Wang , Bin Cui

Named-entity recognition (NER) is a task that typically requires large annotated datasets, which limits its applicability across domains with varying entity definitions. This paper addresses few-shot NER, aiming to transfer knowledge to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ayoub Hammal , Benno Uthayasooriyar , Caio Corro

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

Adversarial attacks on machine learning-based classifiers, along with defense mechanisms, have been widely studied in the context of single-label classification problems. In this paper, we shift the attention to multi-label classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Stefano Melacci , Gabriele Ciravegna , Angelo Sotgiu , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Marco Gori , Fabio Roli

Data processing is an important step in various natural language processing tasks. As the commonly used datasets in named entity recognition contain only a limited number of samples, it is important to obtain additional labeled data in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , David Thulke , Weiyue Wang , Christian Dugast , Hermann Ney

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

Given enough data, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are capable of learning complex input-output relations with high accuracy. In several domains, however, data is scarce or expensive to retrieve, while a substantial amount of expert knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Mattia Silvestri , Michele Lombardi , Michela Milano

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal perception and understanding tasks. However, their effectiveness in specialized domains, such as remote sensing and medical imaging, remains limited.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Cross-domain named entity recognition (NER) models are able to cope with the scarcity issue of NER samples in target domains. However, most of the existing NER benchmarks lack domain-specialized entity types or do not focus on a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Zihan Liu , Yan Xu , Tiezheng Yu , Wenliang Dai , Ziwei Ji , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

This paper presents a comprehensive study to efficiently build named entity recognition (NER) systems when a small number of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon recent Transformer-based self-supervised pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiaxin Huang , Chunyuan Li , Krishan Subudhi , Damien Jose , Shobana Balakrishnan , Weizhu Chen , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Jiawei Han

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, which is significant and fundamental for various downstream applications, e.g., knowledge base completion, question answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Ning Liu , Haitao Yuan , Wei Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Jianyong Wang

Traditional named entity recognition models use gazetteers (lists of entities) as features to improve performance. Although modern neural network models do not require such hand-crafted features for strong performance, recent work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Shruti Rijhwani , Shuyan Zhou , Graham Neubig , Jaime Carbonell

One of the most prominent problems in machine learning in the age of deep learning is the availability of sufficiently large annotated datasets. For specific domains, e.g. animal species, a long-tail distribution means that some classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Joachim Denzler

Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Pierre Lison , Aliaksandr Hubin , Jeremy Barnes , Samia Touileb

In sequence labeling, previous domain adaptation methods focus on the adaptation from the source domain to the entire target domain without considering the diversity of individual target domain samples, which may lead to negative transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Huiyun Yang , Shujian Huang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Embedding entities and relations into a continuous multi-dimensional vector space have become the dominant method for knowledge graph embedding in representation learning. However, most existing models ignore to represent hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Cunxiang Wang , Feiliang Ren , Zhichao Lin , Chenxv Zhao , Tian Xie , Yue Zhang

Compared with English, Chinese suffers from more grammatical ambiguities, like fuzzy word boundaries and polysemous words. In this case, contextual information is not sufficient to support Chinese named entity recognition (NER), especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Qinghua Mao , Jiatong Li , Kui Meng