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This paper presents a novel approach to address the Entity Recognition and Linking Challenge at NLPCC 2015. The task involves extracting named entity mentions from short search queries and linking them to entities within a reference Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Di Lu , Zhongping Liang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Traditional language models are unable to efficiently model entity names observed in text. All but the most popular named entities appear infrequently in text providing insufficient context. Recent efforts have recognized that context can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Angli Liu , Jingfei Du , Veselin Stoyanov

Ever-larger language models with ever-increasing capabilities are by now well-established text processing tools. Alas, information extraction tasks such as named entity recognition are still largely unaffected by this progress as they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Tobias Deußer , Lars Hillebrand , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

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

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) from speech is among Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) tasks, aiming to extract semantic information from the speech signal. NER from speech is usually made through a two-step pipeline that consists of (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Boli Chen , Guangwei Xu , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Fei Huang

The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important component of many natural language processing systems, such as relation extraction and knowledge graph construction. In this work, we present a simple and effective approach for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Urchade Zaratiana , Pierre Holat , Nadi Tomeh , Thierry Charnois

Named Entity Recognition(NER) is a task of recognizing entities at a token level in a sentence. This paper focuses on solving NER tasks in a multilingual setting for complex named entities. Our team, LLM-RM participated in the recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Rahul Mehta , Vasudeva Varma

As a fundamental natural language processing task and one of core knowledge extraction techniques, named entity recognition (NER) is widely used to extract information from texts for downstream tasks. Nested NER is a branch of NER in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifei Yang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an essential precursor task for many natural language applications, such as relation extraction or event extraction. Much of the NER research has been done on datasets with few classes of entity types (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Parul Awasthy , Taesun Moon , Jian Ni , Radu Florian

Named Entity Recognition (NER) System aims to extract the existing information into the following categories such as: Persons Name, Organization, Location, Date and Time, Term, Designation and Short forms. Now, it is considered to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Awais Khan Jumani , Mashooque Ahmed Memon , Fida Hussain Khoso , Anwar Ali Sanjrani , Safeeullah Soomro

With the AI revolution in place, the trend for building automated systems to support professionals in different domains such as the open source software systems, healthcare systems, banking systems, transportation systems and many others…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Somnath Banerjee , Avik Dutta , Aaditya Agrawal , Rima Hazra , Animesh Mukherjee

Current systems of fine-grained entity typing use distant supervision in conjunction with existing knowledge bases to assign categories (type labels) to entity mentions. However, the type labels so obtained from knowledge bases are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Xiang Ren , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

In this paper, we propose a new strategy for the task of named entity recognition (NER). We cast the task as a query-based machine reading comprehension task: e.g., the task of extracting entities with PER is formalized as answering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Zijun Sun , Jiwei Li

Entity resolution has been an essential and well-studied task in data cleaning research for decades. Existing work has discussed the feasibility of utilizing pre-trained language models to perform entity resolution and achieved promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Liri Fang , Lan Li , Yiren Liu , Vetle I. Torvik , Bertram Ludäscher

Integrating named entity recognition (NER) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) can significantly enhance transcription accuracy and informativeness. In this paper, we introduce WhisperNER, a novel model that allows joint speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Gil Ayache , Menachem Pirchi , Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Gill Hetz , Joseph Keshet

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task for online advertisement. State-of-the-art solutions leverage pre-trained language models for this task. However, three major challenges remain unresolved: web queries differ from natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Simiao Zuo , Pengfei Tang , Xinyu Hu , Qiang Lou , Jian Jiao , Denis Charles

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in unstructured text. In the legal domain, named entities of interest may include the case parties, judges, names of courts, case numbers, references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Stavroula Skylaki , Ali Oskooei , Omar Bari , Nadja Herger , Zac Kriegman

The advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred a growing interest in their application to Named Entity Recognition (NER) methods. However, existing datasets are primarily designed for traditional machine learning methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hanjun Luo , Yingbin Jin , Xinfeng Li , Xuecheng Liu , Ruizhe Chen , Tong Shang , Kun Wang , Qingsong Wen , Zuozhu Liu