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So far, named entity recognition (NER) has been involved with three major types, including flat, overlapped (aka. nested), and discontinuous NER, which have mostly been studied individually. Recently, a growing interest has been built for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jingye Li , Hao Fei , Jiang Liu , Shengqiong Wu , Meishan Zhang , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji , Fei Li

In this paper, we present a novel approach to Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) by leveraging graph-based modeling techniques. We introduce an End-to-end model with an Edge-weighted Graph Attention Mechanism (EGAT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Yejing Xie , Richard Zanibbi , Harold Mouchère

Popular solutions to Named Entity Recognition (NER) include conditional random fields, sequence-to-sequence models, or utilizing the question-answering framework. However, they are not suitable for nested and overlapping spans with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey

State of the art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models have achieved an impressive ability to extract common phrases from text that belong to labels such as location, organization, time, and person. However, typical NER systems that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandra Loessberg-Zahl

We propose Neural Entity Reasoner (NE-Reasoner), a framework to introduce global consistency of recognized entities into Neural Reasoner over Named Entity Recognition (NER) task. Given an input sentence, the NE-Reasoner layer can infer over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Xiaoxiao Yin , Daqi Zheng , Zhengdong Lu , Ruifang Liu

Entity detection and tracking (EDT) is the task of identifying textual mentions of real-world entities in documents, extending the named entity detection and coreference resolution task by considering mentions other than names (pronouns,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

Current state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) are neural models with a conditional random field (CRF) as the final layer. Entities are represented as per-token labels with a special structure in order to decode them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Brian Lester , Daniel Pressel , Amy Hemmeter , Sagnik Ray Choudhury , Srinivas Bangalore

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

Entity alignment (EA) aims to discover the equivalent entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs). It is a pivotal step for integrating KGs to increase knowledge coverage and quality. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase of EA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Weixin Zeng , Xiang Zhao , Jiuyang Tang , Xinyi Li , Minnan Luo , Qinghua Zheng

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely applicable natural language processing task and building block of question answering, topic modeling, information retrieval, etc. In the medical domain, NER plays a crucial role by extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

This paper studies the entity resolution (ER) problem in property graphs. ER is the task of identifying and linking different records that refer to the same real-world entity. It is commonly used in data integration, data cleansing, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Junwei Hu , Michael Bewong , Selasi Kwashie , Yidi Zhang , Vincent Nofong , John Wondoh , Zaiwen Feng

Prompt-based language models have produced encouraging results in numerous applications, including Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. NER aims to identify entities in a sentence and provide their types. However, the strong performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Amirhossein Layegh , Amir H. Payberah , Ahmet Soylu , Dumitru Roman , Mihhail Matskin

In the last years, the consolidation of deep neural network architectures for information extraction in document images has brought big improvements in the performance of each of the tasks involved in this process, consisting of text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Manuel Carbonell , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas , Josep Lladós

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are supervised machine learning models that require large amounts of manually annotated data to achieve high accuracy. However, annotating NER data by human is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jian Ni , Georgiana Dinu , Radu Florian

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in NLP systems for question answering, information retrieval, relation extraction, etc. NER systems have been studied and developed widely for decades, but accurate systems using deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard

We present a statistical model for German medical natural language processing trained for named entity recognition (NER) as an open, publicly available model. The work serves as a refined successor to our first GERNERMED model which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Johann Frei , Ludwig Frei-Stuber , Frank Kramer

More recently, Named Entity Recognition hasachieved great advances aided by pre-trainingapproaches such as BERT. However, currentpre-training techniques focus on building lan-guage modeling objectives to learn a gen-eral representation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mengge Xue , Bowen Yu , Zhenyu Zhang , Tingwen Liu , Yue Zhang , Bin Wang

Entity alignment (EA) is the task to discover entities referring to the same real-world object from different knowledge graphs (KGs), which is the most crucial step in integrating multi-source KGs. The majority of the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Renbo Zhu , Meng Ma , Ping Wang

Zero-shot entity retrieval, aiming to link mentions to candidate entities under the zero-shot setting, is vital for many tasks in Natural Language Processing. Most existing methods represent mentions/entities via the sentence embeddings of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Taiqiang Wu , Xingyu Bai , Weigang Guo , Weijie Liu , Siheng Li , Yujiu Yang