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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…

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Tracking entities in procedural language requires understanding the transformations arising from actions on entities as well as those entities' interactions. While self-attention-based pre-trained language encoders like GPT and BERT have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Aditya Gupta , Greg Durrett

Document structure analysis, such as zone segmentation and table recognition, is a complex problem in document processing and is an active area of research. The recent success of deep learning in solving various computer vision and machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Shah Rukh Qasim , Hassan Mahmood , Faisal Shafait

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 fundamental task in the fields of natural language processing and information extraction. NER has been widely used as a standalone tool or an essential component in a variety of applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Vladislav Mikhailov , Tatiana Shavrina

Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) systems have recently been widely researched to deal with the significant growth of the Web. NERD systems are crucial for several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sandro A. Coelho , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo C. Publio , Diego Esteves

Tabular data remain a dominant form of real-world information but pose persistent challenges for deep learning due to heterogeneous feature types, lack of natural structure, and limited label-preserving augmentations. As a result, ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sivan Sarafian , Yehudit Aperstein

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

We propose a graph-oriented attention-based explainability method for tabular data. Tasks involving tabular data have been solved mostly using traditional tree-based machine learning models which have the challenges of feature selection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Andrea Treviño Gavito , Diego Klabjan , Jean Utke

Tabular datasets are widely used in scientific disciplines such as biology. While these disciplines have already adopted AI methods to enhance their findings and analysis, they mainly use tree-based methods due to their interpretability. At…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Salvatore Raieli , Nathalie Jeanray , Stéphane Gerart , Sebastien Vachenc , Abdulrahman Altahhan

In many scenarios, named entity recognition (NER) models severely suffer from unlabeled entity problem, where the entities of a sentence may not be fully annotated. Through empirical studies performed on synthetic datasets, we find two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi

To address the challenges of table structure recognition, we propose a novel Split-Merge-based top-down model optimized for large, densely populated tables. Our approach formulates row and column splitting as sequence labeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Hou , Jun Wang

Table foundation models bring high hopes to data science: pre-trained on tabular data to embark knowledge or priors, they should facilitate downstream tasks on tables. One specific challenge is that of data semantics: numerical entries take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Myung Jun Kim , Félix Lefebvre , Gaëtan Brison , Alexandre Perez-Lebel , Gaël Varoquaux

Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaolei Huang , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng

Despite the prevalence and significance of tabular data across numerous industries and fields, it has been relatively underexplored in the realm of deep learning. Even today, neural networks are often overshadowed by techniques such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Andreas Voskou , Charalambos Christoforou , Sotirios Chatzis

Examining the effect of different encoding techniques on entity and context embeddings, the goal of this work is to challenge commonly used Ordinal encoding for tabular learning. Applying different preprocessing methods and network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Fredy Reusser

Named Entities (NEs) are often written with no orthographic changes across different languages that share a common alphabet. We show that this can be leveraged so as to improve named entity recognition (NER) by using unsupervised word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Manaal Faruqui

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

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

Table retrieval is essential for accessing information stored in structured tabular formats; however, it remains less explored than text retrieval. The content of the table primarily consists of phrases and words, which include a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Da Li , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng