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Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kosuke Nishida , Naoki Yoshinaga , Kyosuke Nishida

Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition (DS-NER) is widely used in real-world scenarios. It can effectively alleviate the burden of annotation by matching entities in existing knowledge bases with snippets in the text but suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Shuzheng Si , Helan Hu , Haozhe Zhao , Shuang Zeng , Kaikai An , Zefan Cai , Baobao Chang

In cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER), self-training is commonly used to bridge the linguistic gap by training on pseudo-labeled target-language data. However, due to sub-optimal performance on target languages, the pseudo labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ran Zhou , Xin Li , Lidong Bing , Erik Cambria , Chunyan Miao

Unsupervised clustering aims at discovering the semantic categories of data according to some distance measured in the representation space. However, different categories often overlap with each other in the representation space at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dejiao Zhang , Feng Nan , Xiaokai Wei , Shangwen Li , Henghui Zhu , Kathleen McKeown , Ramesh Nallapati , Andrew Arnold , Bing Xiang

Document-level relation extraction (RE) aims to identify relations between entities across multiple sentences. Most previous methods focused on document-level RE under full supervision. However, in real-world scenario, it is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ye Wang , Xinxin Liu , Wenxin Hu , Tao Zhang

Recurrent Neural Network models are the state-of-the-art for Named Entity Recognition (NER). We present two innovations to improve the performance of these models. The first innovation is the introduction of residual connections between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Quan Tran , Andrew MacKinlay , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task in natural language processing, yet it remains particularly challenging for discontinuous entities. The primary difficulty lies in text segmentation, as traditional methods often missegment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wen-Fang Su , Hsiao-Wei Chou , Wen-Yang Lin

To tackle Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks, supervised methods need to obtain sufficient cleanly annotated data, which is labor and time consuming. On the contrary, distantly supervised methods acquire automatically annotated data using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shifeng Liu , Yifang Sun , Bing Li , Wei Wang , Xiang Zhao

Many previous models of named entity recognition (NER) suffer from the problem of Out-of-Entity (OOE), i.e., the tokens in the entity mentions of the test samples have not appeared in the training samples, which hinders the achievement of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Guochao Jiang , Ziqin Luo , Chengwei Hu , Zepeng Ding , Deqing Yang

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a growingly essential task in natural language understanding, which requires inferring the relationship between the sentence pairs (premise and hypothesis). Recently, low-resource natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Shu'ang Li , Xuming Hu , Li Lin , Aiwei Liu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition (DS-NER) effectively alleviates the data scarcity problem in NER by automatically generating training samples. Unfortunately, the distant supervision may induce noisy labels, thus undermining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Xiaoye Qu , Jun Zeng , Daizong Liu , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai , Pan Zhou

In this work, we address the NER problem by splitting it into two logical sub-tasks: (1) Span Detection which simply extracts entity mention spans irrespective of entity type; (2) Span Classification which classifies the spans into their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jatin Arora , Youngja Park

Named Entity Recognition task is one of the core tasks of information extraction. Word ambiguity and word abbreviation are important reasons for the low recognition rate of named entities. In this paper, we propose a novel named entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Renjie Zhou , Qiang Hu , Jian Wan , Jilin Zhang , Qiang Liu , Tianxiang Hu , Jianjun Li

Image classification datasets exhibit a non-negligible fraction of mislabeled examples, often due to human error when one class superficially resembles another. This issue poses challenges in supervised contrastive learning (SCL), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zijun Long , George Killick , Lipeng Zhuang , Richard McCreadie , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Paul Henderson

Research on overlapped and discontinuous named entity recognition (NER) has received increasing attention. The majority of previous work focuses on either overlapped or discontinuous entities. In this paper, we propose a novel span-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Fei Li , Zhichao Lin , Meishan Zhang , Donghong Ji

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract named entities using only a limited number of labeled examples. Existing contrastive learning methods often suffer from insufficient distinguishability in context vector representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Haojie Zhang , Yimeng Zhuang

Span-based joint extraction simultaneously conducts named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) in text span form. However, since previous span-based models rely on span-level classifications, they cannot benefit from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Bin Ji , Shasha Li , Hao Xu , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Huijun Liu , Jing Yang

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), a task that identifies and categorizes named entities such as persons or organizations from text, is traditionally framed as a multi-class classification problem. However, this approach often overlooks the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Ngoc Dang Nguyen , Wei Tan , Lan Du , Wray Buntine , Richard Beare , Changyou Chen