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Named Entity Recognition is the task to locate and classify the entities in the text. However, Unlabeled Entity Problem in NER datasets seriously hinders the improvement of NER performance. This paper proposes SCL-RAI to cope with this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shuzheng Si , Shuang Zeng , Jiaxing Lin , Baobao Chang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in biomedical domains faces challenges due to data scarcity and imbalanced label distributions, especially with fine-grained entity types. We propose ReProCon, a novel few-shot NER framework that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jeongkyun Yoo , Nela Riddle , Andrew Hoblitzell

Meta-learning methods have been widely used in few-shot named entity recognition (NER), especially prototype-based methods. However, the Other(O) class is difficult to be represented by a prototype vector because there are generally a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Chengcheng Han , Renyu Zhu , Jun Kuang , FengJiao Chen , Xiang Li , Ming Gao , Xuezhi Cao , Wei Wu

Recently, prompt-based methods have achieved significant performance in few-shot learning scenarios by bridging the gap between language model pre-training and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. However, existing prompt templates are mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Liwen Wang , Rumei Li , Yang Yan , Yuanmeng Yan , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) frequently suffers from the problem of insufficient labeled data, particularly in fine-grained NER scenarios. Although $K$-shot learning techniques can be applied, their performance tends to saturate when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Su Ah Lee , Seokjin Oh , Woohwan Jung

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 with correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Diego Esteves , Rafael Peres , Jens Lehmann , Giulio Napolitano

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This paper aims to quantify how this diversity impacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Isabelle Augenstein , Leon Derczynski , Kalina Bontcheva

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in historical texts presents unique challenges due to non-standardized language, archaic orthography, and nested or overlapping entities. This study benchmarks a diverse set of NER approaches, ranging from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ludovic Moncla , Hédi Zeghidi

Incorporating large-scale pre-trained models with the prototypical neural networks is a de-facto paradigm in few-shot named entity recognition. Existing methods, unfortunately, are not aware of the fact that embeddings from pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Youcheng Huang , Wenqiang Lei , Jie Fu , Jiancheng Lv

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to develop entity recognition systems from unannotated text corpora. This task presents substantial challenges due to minimal human intervention. Recent work has adapted large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zihan Wang , Ziqi Zhao , Yougang Lyu , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

Few-shot NER aims to identify entities of target types with only limited number of illustrative instances. Unfortunately, few-shot NER is severely challenged by the intrinsic precise generalization problem, i.e., it is hard to accurately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiawei Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Yaojie Lu , Shanshan Jiang , Bin Dong , Le Sun

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

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

The aim of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is to identify references of named entities in unstructured documents, and to classify them into pre-defined semantic categories. NER often aids from added background knowledge in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-24 S. Thenmalar , J. Balaji , T. V. Geetha

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

We study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) based on demonstration learning in low-resource scenarios. We identify two issues in demonstration construction and model training. Firstly, existing methods for selecting demonstration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Guowen Yuan , Tien-Hsuan Wu , Lianghao Xia , Ben Kao

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to identify named entities with very little annotated data. Previous methods solve this problem based on token-wise classification, which ignores the information of entity boundaries, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jianing Wang , Chengcheng Han , Chengyu Wang , Chuanqi Tan , Minghui Qiu , Songfang Huang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao

We present DualNER, a simple and effective framework to make full use of both annotated source language corpus and unlabeled target language text for zero-shot cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER). In particular, we combine two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jiali Zeng , Yufan Jiang , Yongjing Yin , Xu Wang , Binghuai Lin , Yunbo Cao

Few-shot Learning (FSL), which endeavors to develop the generalization ability for recognizing novel classes using only a few images, faces significant challenges due to data scarcity. Recent CLIP-like methods based on contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wei Zhuo , Runjie Luo , Wufeng Xue , Linlin Shen