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Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is a burgeoning area, which involves updating an existing model by incorporating new entity types sequentially. Nevertheless, continual learning approaches are often severely afflicted by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Duzhen Zhang , Wei Cong , Jiahua Dong , Yahan Yu , Xiuyi Chen , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang

Named Entity Recognition is an information extraction task that serves as a preprocessing step for other natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, information retrieval, and question answering. Named entity recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ebrahim Chekol Jibril , A. Cüneyd Tantğ

Nested named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify the entity boundaries and recognize categories of the named entities in a complex hierarchical sentence. Some works have been done using character-level, word-level, or lexicon-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yuan Sui , Fanyang Bu , Yingting Hu , Wei Yan , Liang Zhang

Popular solutions to Named Entity Recognition (NER) include conditional random fields, sequence-to-sequence models, or utilizing the question-answering framework. However, they are not suitable for nested and overlapping spans with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey

In the last years, the consolidation of deep neural network architectures for information extraction in document images has brought big improvements in the performance of each of the tasks involved in this process, consisting of text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Manuel Carbonell , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas , Josep Lladós

Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data. There have been efforts on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Xiaotao Gu , Teng Ren , Jiawei Han

Sequence labeling is a widely used method for named entity recognition and information extraction from unstructured natural language data. In clinical domain one major application of sequence labeling involves extraction of medical entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Abhyuday Jagannatha , Hong Yu

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental and important task in NLP, aiming at identifying named entities (NEs) from free text. Recently, since the multi-head attention mechanism applied in the Transformer model can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Jinpeng Hu , Yaling Shen , Yang Liu , Xiang Wan , Tsung-Hui Chang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

Deep neural networks need to make robust inference in the presence of occlusion, background clutter, pose and viewpoint variations -- to name a few -- when the task of person re-identification is considered. Attention mechanisms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Jieming Zhou , Soumava Kumar Roy , Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Background. Previous state-of-the-art systems on Drug Name Recognition (DNR) and Clinical Concept Extraction (CCE) have focused on a combination of text "feature engineering" and conventional machine learning algorithms such as conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Ehsan Zare Borzeshi , Massimo Piccardi

Motivation: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key task to support biomedical research. In Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER), obtaining high-quality expert annotated data is laborious and expensive, leading to the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Liangping Ding , Giovanni Colavizza , Zhixiong Zhang

Attention networks show promise for both vision and language tasks, by emphasizing relationships between constituent elements through weighting functions. Such elements could be regions in an image output by a region proposal network, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chu Wang , Babak Samari , Vladimir Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Kaleem Siddiqi

Scene text recognition has attracted particular research interest because it is a very challenging problem and has various applications. The most cutting-edge methods are attentional encoder-decoder frameworks that learn the alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Xiaoxue Chen , Tianwei Wang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Canjie Luo

For object detection, how to address the contradictory requirement between feature map resolution and receptive field on high-resolution inputs still remains an open question. In this paper, to tackle this issue, we build a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Junxu Cao , Qi Chen , Jun Guo , Ruichao Shi

State-of-the-art models for joint entity recognition and relation extraction strongly rely on external natural language processing (NLP) tools such as POS (part-of-speech) taggers and dependency parsers. Thus, the performance of such joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Giannis Bekoulis , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

In named entity recognition, we often don't have a large in-domain training corpus or a knowledge base with adequate coverage to train a model directly. In this paper, we propose a method where, given training data in a related domain with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Lizhen Qu , Gabriela Ferraro , Liyuan Zhou , Weiwei Hou , Timothy Baldwin

In this paper, we present a new multi-branch neural network that simultaneously performs soft biometric (SB) prediction as an auxiliary modality and face recognition (FR) as the main task. Our proposed network named AAFace utilizes SB…

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves

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