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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging and widely studied task that involves detecting and typing entities in text. So far,NER still approaches entity typing as a task of classification into universal classes (e.g. date, person, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Tristan Luiggi , Laure Soulier , Vincent Guigue , Siwar Jendoubi , Aurélien Baelde

Recognizing entities in texts is a central need in many information-seeking scenarios, and indeed, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is arguably one of the most successful examples of a widely adopted NLP task and corresponding NLP technology.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Uri Katz , Matan Vetzler , Amir DN Cohen , Yoav Goldberg

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

In this paper, we propose a novel bipartite flat-graph network (BiFlaG) for nested named entity recognition (NER), which contains two subgraph modules: a flat NER module for outermost entities and a graph module for all the entities located…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ying Luo , Hai Zhao

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 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

Lately, instruction-based techniques have made significant strides in improving performance in few-shot learning scenarios. They achieve this by bridging the gap between pre-trained language models and fine-tuning for specific downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hiranmai Sri Adibhatla , Pavan Baswani , Manish Shrivastava

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. However, the widely-used sequence labeling framework is difficult to detect entities with nested structures. In this work, we view nested NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yao Fu , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang

Deep neural network models have helped named entity (NE) recognition achieve amazing performance without handcrafting features. However, existing systems require large amounts of human annotated training data. Efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ying Luo , Hai Zhao , Junlang Zhan

Training a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model often involves fixing a taxonomy of entity types. However, requirements evolve and we might need the NER model to recognize additional entity types. A simple approach is to re-annotate entire…

Most Named Entity Recognition (NER) models operate under the assumption that training datasets are fully labelled. While it is valid for established datasets like CoNLL 2003 and OntoNotes, sometimes it is not feasible to obtain the complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Viktor Scherbakov , Vladimir Mayorov

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a well researched NLP task and is widely used in real world NLP scenarios. NER research typically focuses on the creation of new ways of training NER, with relatively less emphasis on resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Sowmya Vajjala , Ramya Balasubramaniam

In this work, we revisit the problem of semi-supervised named entity recognition (NER) focusing on extremely light supervision, consisting of a lexicon containing only 10 examples per class. We introduce ELLEN, a simple, fully modular,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Haris Riaz , Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru , Mihai Surdeanu

Named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) are two fundamentally related tasks, since in order to perform EL, first the mentions to entities have to be detected. However, most entity linking approaches disregard the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Recent advances in named entity recognition (NER) have pushed the boundary of the task to incorporate visual signals, leading to many variants, including multi-modal NER (MNER) or grounded MNER (GMNER). A key challenge to these tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hyunjong Ok , Taeho Kil , Sukmin Seo , Jaeho Lee

Standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly trained in an end-to-end fashion for specific tasks such as object recognition, face identification, or character recognition, among many examples. This specificity often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raphaël Achddou , J. Matias di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

As the categories of named entities rapidly increase, the deployed NER models are required to keep updating toward recognizing more entity types, creating a demand for class-incremental learning for NER. Considering the privacy concerns and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ruotian Ma , Xuanting Chen , Lin Zhang , Xin Zhou , Junzhe Wang , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xiang Gao , Yunwen Chen

Successfully training a deep neural network demands a huge corpus of labeled data. However, each label only provides limited information to learn from and collecting the requisite number of labels involves massive human effort. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Dong-Ho Lee , Rahul Khanna , Bill Yuchen Lin , Jamin Chen , Seyeon Lee , Qinyuan Ye , Elizabeth Boschee , Leonardo Neves , Xiang Ren

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to extract entities from unstructured data. The previous methods for NER were based on machine learning or deep learning. Recently, pre-training models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yu Wang , Yining Sun , Zuchang Ma , Lisheng Gao , Yang Xu , Ting Sun