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Clinical Named Entity Recognition (CNER) aims to identify and classify clinical terms such as diseases, symptoms, treatments, exams, and body parts in electronic health records, which is a fundamental and crucial task for clinical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Qi Wang , Yuhang Xia , Yangming Zhou , Tong Ruan , Daqi Gao , Ping He

Nowadays, many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks see the demand for incorporating knowledge external to the local information to further improve the performance. However, there is little related work on Named Entity Recognition (NER),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chiao-Wei Hsu , Keh-Yih Su

This paper presents a multi-way parallel English-Tamil-Sinhala corpus annotated with Named Entities (NEs), where Sinhala and Tamil are low-resource languages. Using pre-trained multilingual Language Models (mLMs), we establish new benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surangika Ranathunga , Asanka Ranasinghea , Janaka Shamala , Ayodya Dandeniyaa , Rashmi Galappaththia , Malithi Samaraweeraa

Background Medical and life science research generates millions of publications, and it is a great challenge for researchers to utilize this information in full since its scale and complexity greatly surpasses human reading capabilities.…

Links are a fundamental part of information networks, turning isolated pieces of knowledge into a network of information that is much richer than the sum of its parts. However, adding a new link to the network is not trivial: it requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tomás Feith , Akhil Arora , Martin Gerlach , Debjit Paul , Robert West

We introduce CNER, an ensemble of capable tools for extraction of semantic relationships between named entities in Spanish language. Built upon a container-based architecture, CNER integrates different Named entity recognition and relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jefferson A. Peña Torres , Raúl E. Gutiérrez De Piñerez

Parallel texts are a relatively rare language resource, however, they constitute a very useful research material with a wide range of applications. This study presents and analyses new methodologies we developed for obtaining such data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Krzysztof Wołk , Emilia Rejmund , Krzysztof Marasek

We present OpenNER 1.0, a standardized collection of openly-available named entity recognition (NER) datasets. OpenNER contains 36 NER corpora that span 52 languages, human-annotated in varying named entity ontologies. We correct annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Chester Palen-Michel , Maxwell Pickering , Maya Kruse , Jonne Sälevä , Constantine Lignos

One of the main tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), is Named Entity Recognition (NER). It is used in many applications and also can be used as an intermediate step for other tasks. We present ANER, a web-based named entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Abdelrahman "Boda" Sadallah , Omar Ahmed , Shimaa Mohamed , Omar Hatem , Doaa Hesham , Ahmed H. Yousef

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

We introduce ParaNames, a massively multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jonne Sälevä , Constantine Lignos

Most weakly supervised named entity recognition (NER) models rely on domain-specific dictionaries provided by experts. This approach is infeasible in many domains where dictionaries do not exist. While a phrase retrieval model was used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jaewoo Kang

Cross-document event coreference resolution is a foundational task for NLP applications involving multi-text processing. However, existing corpora for this task are scarce and relatively small, while annotating only modest-size clusters of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Alon Eirew , Arie Cattan , Ido Dagan

In this paper, we address web-scale visual entity recognition, specifically the task of mapping a given query image to one of the 6 million existing entities in Wikipedia. One way of approaching a problem of such scale is using dual-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Mathilde Caron , Ahmet Iscen , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task that aims to identify and classify entity mentions in texts across different categories. While languages such as English possess a large number of…

Mining structured knowledge from tweets using named entity recognition (NER) can be beneficial for many down stream applications such as recommendation and intention understanding. With tweet posts tending to be multimodal, multimodal named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Peipei Liu , Hong Li , Yimo Ren , Jie Liu , Shuaizong Si , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

In this work, we tackle the problem of Armenian named entity recognition, providing silver- and gold-standard datasets as well as establishing baseline results on popular models. We present a 163000-token named entity corpus automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Tsolak Ghukasyan , Garnik Davtyan , Karen Avetisyan , Ivan Andrianov

Online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has become one of the best sources of knowledge. Much effort has been devoted to expanding and enriching the structured data by automatic information extraction from unstructured text in Wikipedia.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Kezun Zhang , Yanghua Xiao , Hanghang Tong , Haixun Wang , Wei Wang

Large sense-annotated datasets are increasingly necessary for training deep supervised systems in Word Sense Disambiguation. However, gathering high-quality sense-annotated data for as many instances as possible is a laborious and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Tommaso Pasini , Jose Camacho-Collados

The goal in the NER task is to classify proper nouns of a text into classes such as person, location, and organization. This is an important preprocessing step in many NLP tasks such as question-answering and summarization. Although many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mahsa Sadat Shahshahani , Mahdi Mohseni , Azadeh Shakery , Heshaam Faili