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Named entity recognition (NER) is usually developed and tested on text from well-written sources. However, in intelligent voice assistants, where NER is an important component, input to NER may be noisy because of user or speech recognition…

Recently, span-based constituency parsing has achieved competitive accuracies with extremely simple models by using bidirectional RNNs to model "spans". However, the minimal span parser of Stern et al (2017a) which holds the current state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Juneki Hong , Liang Huang

We propose two neural network architectures for nested named entity recognition (NER), a setting in which named entities may overlap and also be labeled with more than one label. We encode the nested labels using a linearized scheme. In our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jana Straková , Milan Straka , Jan Hajič

We present a novel approach to named entity recognition (NER) in the presence of scarce data that we call example-based NER. Our train-free few-shot learning approach takes inspiration from question-answering to identify entity spans in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Morteza Ziyadi , Yuting Sun , Abhishek Goswami , Jade Huang , Weizhu Chen

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

Named entity recognition (NER) is a foundational technology for information extraction. This paper presents a flexible NER framework compatible with different languages and domains. Inspired by the idea of distant supervision (DS), this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hongyin Zhu , Wenpeng Hu , Yi Zeng

Supervised machine learning assumes the availability of fully-labeled data, but in many cases, such as low-resource languages, the only data available is partially annotated. We study the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Stephen Mayhew , Snigdha Chaturvedi , Chen-Tse Tsai , Dan Roth

Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the tasks in natural language processing that can greatly benefit from the use of external knowledge sources. We propose a named entity recognition framework composed of knowledge-based feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Sławomir Dadas

Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Peter Szolovits

Named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify mentions of named entities in an unstructured text and classify them into predefined named entity classes. While deep learning-based pre-trained language models help to achieve good predictive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ali Osman Berk Sapci , Oznur Tastan , Reyyan Yeniterzi

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key step in the creation of structured data from digitised historical documents. Traditional NER approaches deal with flat named entities, whereas entities often are nested. For example, a postal address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Solenn Tual , Nathalie Abadie , J Chazalon , Bertrand Duménieu , Edwin Carlinet

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

There has been a growing academic interest in the recognition of nested named entities in many domains. We tackle the task with a novel local hypergraph-based method: We first propose start token candidates and generate corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yukun Yan , Sen Song

Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the best studied tasks in natural language processing. However, most approaches are not capable of handling nested structures which are common in many applications. In this paper we introduce a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Joseph Fisher , Andreas Vlachos

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) in Chinese is essential but difficult because of the lack of natural delimiters. Therefore, Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) is usually considered as the first step for Chinese NER. However, models based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yuying Zhu , Guoxin Wang , Börje F. Karlsson

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) stands out as a pivotal mechanism for extracting structured insights from unstructured text. This manuscript offers an exhaustive exploration into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kalyani Pakhale

Span-based models are one of the most straightforward methods for named entity recognition (NER). Existing span-based NER systems shallowly aggregate the token representations to span representations. However, this typically results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Enwei Zhu , Yiyang Liu , Jinpeng Li

Nested Named Entity Recognition (NNER) has been a long-term challenge to researchers as an important sub-area of Named Entity Recognition. NNER is where one entity may be part of a longer entity, and this may happen on multiple levels, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiuding Yang , Jinwen Luo , Weidong Guo , Jerry Chen , Di Niu , Yu Xu

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