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Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable adaptability across domains, these models often fall short in structured knowledge extraction tasks such as named entity recognition (NER). This paper explores an innovative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yuzhao Heng , Chunyuan Deng , Yitong Li , Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Rongzhi Zhang , Chao Zhang

We present a weakly-supervised data augmentation approach to improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a challenging domain: extracting biomedical entities (e.g., proteins) from the scientific literature. First, we train a neural NER (NNER)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Mathew , Shobeir Fakhraei , José Luis Ambite

Many NLP tasks, although well-resolved for general English, face challenges in specific domains like fantasy literature. This is evident in Named Entity Recognition (NER), which detects and categorizes entities in text. We analyzed 10 NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Gayashan Weerasundara , Nisansa de Silva

Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs), their performance on information extraction tasks is still not entirely satisfactory. However, their remarkable rewriting capabilities and extensive world knowledge offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Junjie Ye , Nuo Xu , Yikun Wang , Jie Zhou , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Xuanjing Huang

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is often the first step towards automated Knowledge Base (KB) generation from raw text. In this work, we assess the bias in various Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems for English across different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shubhanshu Mishra , Sijun He , Luca Belli

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) stands out as a pivotal mechanism for extracting structured insights from unstructured text. This manuscript offers an exhaustive exploration into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kalyani Pakhale

Data augmentation is an effective solution to data scarcity in low-resource scenarios. However, when applied to token-level tasks such as NER, data augmentation methods often suffer from token-label misalignment, which leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Ran Zhou , Xin Li , Ruidan He , Lidong Bing , Erik Cambria , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao

Named Entities (NEs) are often written with no orthographic changes across different languages that share a common alphabet. We show that this can be leveraged so as to improve named entity recognition (NER) by using unsupervised word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Manaal Faruqui

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in the fields of natural language processing and information extraction. NER has been widely used as a standalone tool or an essential component in a variety of applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Vladislav Mikhailov , Tatiana Shavrina

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims at locating and classifying named entities in text. In some use cases of NER, including cases where detected named entities are used in creating content recommendations, it is crucial to have a reliable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Mahdi Namazifar

Complex Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of detecting linguistically complex named entities in low-context text. In this paper, we present ACLM Attention-map aware keyword selection for Conditional Language Model fine-tuning), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , Manan Suri , Sonal Kumar , S Ramaneswaran , Dinesh Manocha

Supervised machine learning assumes the availability of fully-labeled data, but in many cases, such as low-resource languages, the only data available is partially annotated. We study the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Stephen Mayhew , Snigdha Chaturvedi , Chen-Tse Tsai , Dan Roth

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in large-scale texts into predefined classes. NER in French and other relatively limited-resource languages cannot always benefit from approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Arjun Choudhry , Inder Khatri , Pankaj Gupta , Aaryan Gupta , Maxime Nicol , Marie-Jean Meurs , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task in natural language processing, yet it remains particularly challenging for discontinuous entities. The primary difficulty lies in text segmentation, as traditional methods often missegment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wen-Fang Su , Hsiao-Wei Chou , Wen-Yang Lin

Negative sampling is highly effective in handling missing annotations for named entity recognition (NER). One of our contributions is an analysis on how it makes sense through introducing two insightful concepts: missampling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in NLP that is used to locate the key information in text and is primarily applied in conversational and search systems. In commercial applications, NER or comparable slot-filling methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Maithili Sabane , Aparna Ranade , Onkar Litake , Parth Patil , Raviraj Joshi , Dipali Kadam

This paper investigates the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) for extreme low-resource languages with only a few hundred tagged data samples. NER is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). A critical driver…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shashank Sonkar , Zichao Wang , Richard G. Baraniuk

Previous studies have shown that linguistic features of a word such as possession, genitive or other grammatical cases can be employed in word representations of a named entity recognition (NER) tagger to improve the performance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Onur Güngör , Suzan Üsküdarlı , Tunga Güngör

Named Entity Recognition (NER) involves the identification and classification of named entities in unstructured text into predefined classes. NER in languages with limited resources, like French, is still an open problem due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Arjun Choudhry , Pankaj Gupta , Inder Khatri , Aaryan Gupta , Maxime Nicol , Marie-Jean Meurs , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma