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Cross-lingual entity linking maps an entity mention in a source language to its corresponding entry in a structured knowledge base that is in a different (target) language. While previous work relies heavily on bilingual lexical resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Shruti Rijhwani , Jiateng Xie , Graham Neubig , Jaime Carbonell

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental component in many applications, such as Web Search and Voice Assistants. Although deep neural networks greatly improve the performance of NER, due to the requirement of large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shining Liang , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Linjun Shou , Wanli Zuo , Xianglin Zuo , Daxin Jiang

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen remarkable advances in recent years, particularly with the emergence of Large Language Models that have achieved unprecedented performance across many tasks. However, these developments have mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Iker García-Ferrero

This paper presents a comprehensive study to efficiently build named entity recognition (NER) systems when a small number of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon recent Transformer-based self-supervised pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiaxin Huang , Chunyuan Li , Krishan Subudhi , Damien Jose , Shobana Balakrishnan , Weizhu Chen , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Jiawei Han

Despite impressive results of language models for named entity recognition (NER), their generalization to varied textual genres, a growing entity type set, and new entities remains a challenge. Collecting thousands of annotations in each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

Despite the huge and continuous advances in computational linguistics, the lack of annotated data for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is still a challenging issue, especially in low-resource languages and when domain knowledge is required…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Valerio La Gatta , Vincenzo Moscato , Marco Postiglione , Giancarlo Sperlì

Existing models for cross-domain named entity recognition (NER) rely on numerous unlabeled corpus or labeled NER training data in target domains. However, collecting data for low-resource target domains is not only expensive but also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Pascale Fung

Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Alankar Jain , Bhargavi Paranjape , Zachary C. Lipton

Developing Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems for Indian languages has been a long-standing challenge, mainly owing to the requirement of a large amount of annotated clean training instances. This paper proposes an end-to-end framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Akshara Prabhakar , Gouri Sankar Majumder , Ashish Anand

In this work, we study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) in a low resource scenario, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot settings. Built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, we propose a novel NER framework, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yaqing Wang , Haoda Chu , Chao Zhang , Jing Gao

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to recognize novel named entities in low-resource domains utilizing existing knowledge. However, the present few-shot NER models assume that the labeled data are all clean without noise or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xiaojun Xue , Chunxia Zhang , Tianxiang Xu , Zhendong Niu

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) is the task of detecting named entities of specific types (such as 'Person' or 'Medicine') without any training examples. Current research increasingly relies on large synthetic datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Max Ploner , Fabio Barth , Nicolaas Jedema , Alan Akbik

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

Zero-resource named entity recognition (NER) severely suffers from data scarcity in a specific domain or language. Most studies on zero-resource NER transfer knowledge from various data by fine-tuning on different auxiliary tasks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ying Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

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

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

Cross-domain named entity recognition (NER) models are able to cope with the scarcity issue of NER samples in target domains. However, most of the existing NER benchmarks lack domain-specialized entity types or do not focus on a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Zihan Liu , Yan Xu , Tiezheng Yu , Wenliang Dai , Ziwei Ji , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) detects named entities within text using only a few annotated examples. One promising line of research is to leverage natural language descriptions of each entity type: the common label PER might, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jonas Golde , Felix Hamborg , Alan Akbik

Cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER) aims to train an NER system that generalizes well to a target language by leveraging labeled data in a given source language. Previous work alleviates the data scarcity problem by translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tingting Ma , Qianhui Wu , Huiqiang Jiang , Börje F. Karlsson , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin

Named-entity recognition (NER) detects texts with predefined semantic labels and is an essential building block for natural language processing (NLP). Notably, recent NER research focuses on utilizing massive extra data, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuxiang Zhang , Junjie Wang , Xinyu Zhu , Tetsuya Sakai , Hayato Yamana