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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

Many recent named entity recognition (NER) studies criticize flat NER for its non-overlapping assumption, and switch to investigating nested NER. However, existing nested NER models heavily rely on training data annotated with nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Enwei Zhu , Yiyang Liu , Ming Jin , Jinpeng Li

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Classification (RC) are important steps in extracting information from unstructured text and formatting it into a machine-readable format. We present a survey of recent deep learning models that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sakher Khalil Alqaaidi , Elika Bozorgi , Afsaneh Shams , Krzysztof Kochut

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 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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task that requires substantial annotated data, making it challenging in low-resource scenarios where label acquisition is expensive. While zero-shot and instruction-tuned approaches have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nanda Kumar Rengarajan , Jun Yan , Chun Wang

Cross-lingual named entity recognition (CrossNER) faces challenges stemming from uneven performance due to the scarcity of multilingual corpora, especially for non-English data. While prior efforts mainly focus on data-driven transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ying Mo , Jian Yang , Jiahao Liu , Qifan Wang , Ruoyu Chen , Jingang Wang , Zhoujun Li

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying named entities based on only few labeled instances. Most existing prototype-based sequence labeling models tend to memorize entity mentions which would be easily confused by close…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Guanting Dong , Zechen Wang , Liwen Wang , Daichi Guo , Dayuan Fu , Yuxiang Wu , Chen Zeng , Xuefeng Li , Tingfeng Hui , Keqing He , Xinyue Cui , Qixiang Gao , Weiran Xu

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

Nested named entity recognition identifies entities contained within other entities, but requires expensive multi-level annotation. While flat NER corpora exist abundantly, nested resources remain scarce. We investigate whether models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Igor Rozhkov , Natalia Loukachevitch

Named Entity Recognition task is one of the core tasks of information extraction. Word ambiguity and word abbreviation are important reasons for the low recognition rate of named entities. In this paper, we propose a novel named entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Renjie Zhou , Qiang Hu , Jian Wan , Jilin Zhang , Qiang Liu , Tianxiang Hu , Jianjun Li

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) enables us to build a NER system for a new domain using very few labeled examples. However, existing prototypical networks for this task suffer from roughly estimated label dependency and closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Bin Ji , Shasha Li , Shaoduo Gan , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Huijun Liu

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

We introduce FewTopNER, a novel framework that integrates few-shot named entity recognition (NER) with topic-aware contextual modeling to address the challenges of cross-lingual and low-resource scenarios. FewTopNER leverages a shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ibrahim Bouabdallaoui , Fatima Guerouate , Samya Bouhaddour , Chaimae Saadi , Mohammed Sbihi

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying named entities based on only few labeled instances. Current few-shot NER methods focus on leveraging existing datasets in the rich-resource domains which might fail in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zeng Yang , Linhai Zhang , Deyu Zhou

For many natural language processing (NLP) tasks the amount of annotated data is limited. This urges a need to apply semi-supervised learning techniques, such as transfer learning or meta-learning. In this work we tackle Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alexander Fritzler , Varvara Logacheva , Maksim Kretov

Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) has recently become a research hotspot because it can alleviate the data-hungry problem for low-resource languages. However, few researches have focused on the scenario where the source-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yingwen Fu , Nankai Lin , Ziyu Yang , Shengyi Jiang

We cast nested named entity recognition (NNER) as a sequence labeling task by leveraging prior work that linearizes constituency structures, effectively reducing the complexity of this structured prediction problem to straightforward token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz , David Vilares , Caio Corro , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. Traditional NER research only deals with flat entities and ignores nested entities. The span-based methods treat entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Zeqi Tan , Shuai Zhang , Wen Wang , Weiming Lu

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