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Named entity recognition (NER) is frequently addressed as a sequence classification task where each input consists of one sentence of text. It is nevertheless clear that useful information for the task can often be found outside of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jouni Luoma , Sampo Pyysalo

Current work in named entity recognition (NER) shows that data augmentation techniques can produce more robust models. However, most existing techniques focus on augmenting in-domain data in low-resource scenarios where annotated data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuguang Chen , Gustavo Aguilar , Leonardo Neves , Thamar Solorio

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays an important role in a wide range of natural language processing tasks, such as relation extraction, question answering, etc. However, previous studies on NER are limited to particular genres, using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Mengdi Zhu , Zheye Deng , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Ming Zhang , William Yang Wang

In recent years, named entity recognition has always been a popular research in the field of natural language processing, while traditional deep learning methods require a large amount of labeled data for model training, which makes them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yuan Shi

So far, named entity recognition (NER) has been involved with three major types, including flat, overlapped (aka. nested), and discontinuous NER, which have mostly been studied individually. Recently, a growing interest has been built for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jingye Li , Hao Fei , Jiang Liu , Shengqiong Wu , Meishan Zhang , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji , Fei Li

This paper addresses Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the domain of Vocational Education and Training (VET), focusing on historical, digitized documents that suffer from OCR-induced noise. We propose a robust NER approach leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alexander M. Esser , Jens Dörpinghaus

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

In medical information extraction, medical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is indispensable, playing a crucial role in developing medical knowledge graphs, enhancing medical question-answering systems, and analyzing electronic medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiaojing Du , Hanjie Zhao , Danyan Xing , Yuxiang Jia , Hongying Zan

Neural architecture for named entity recognition has achieved great success in the field of natural language processing. Currently, the dominating architecture consists of a bi-directional recurrent neural network (RNN) as the encoder and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Shuyang Cao , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Clinical named entity recognition (NER) aims to retrieve important entities within clinical narratives. Recent works have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance in this task. While previous works focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Reza Averly , Xia Ning

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task that aims to identify structured information, which is often replete with complex, technical terms and a high degree of variability. Accurate and reliable NER can facilitate the extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Grace Yang , Zhiyi Li , Yadong Liu , Jungyeul Park

When an entity name contains other names within it, the identification of all combinations of names can become difficult and expensive. We propose a new method to recognize not only outermost named entities but also inner nested ones. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Takashi Shibuya , Eduard Hovy

Recently, neural methods have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks for many languages without the need for manually crafted features. However, these models still require manually annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 M Saiful Bari , Shafiq Joty , Prathyusha Jwalapuram

The task of named entity recognition (NER) is normally divided into nested NER and flat NER depending on whether named entities are nested or not. Models are usually separately developed for the two tasks, since sequence labeling models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoya Li , Jingrong Feng , Yuxian Meng , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Named entity recognition in real-world applications suffers from the diversity of entity types, the emergence of new entity types, and the lack of high-quality annotations. To address the above problems, this paper proposes an in-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jiawei Chen , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jie Lou , Wei Jia , Dai Dai , Hua Wu , Boxi Cao , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are supervised machine learning models that require large amounts of manually annotated data to achieve high accuracy. However, annotating NER data by human is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jian Ni , Georgiana Dinu , Radu Florian

Nested Named Entity Recognition (NNER) focuses on addressing overlapped entity recognition. Compared to Flat Named Entity Recognition (FNER), annotated resources are scarce in the corpus for NNER. Data augmentation is an effective approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xingming Liao , Nankai Lin , Haowen Li , Lianglun Cheng , Zhuowei Wang , Chong Chen

In the legal domain it is important to differentiate between words in general, and afterwards to link the occurrences of the same entities. The topic to solve these challenges is called Named-Entity Linking (NEL). Current supervised neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ahmed Elnaggar , Robin Otto , Florian Matthes

Language model (LM) pretraining has led to consistent improvements in many NLP downstream tasks, including named entity recognition (NER). In this paper, we present T-NER (Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition), a Python library for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados