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Transferring knowledge from one domain to another is of practical importance for many tasks in natural language processing, especially when the amount of available data in the target domain is limited. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Ali Davody , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

In recent years, the fine-tuned generative models have been proven more powerful than the previous tagging-based or span-based models on named entity recognition (NER) task. It has also been found that the information related to entities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Guochao Jiang , Ziqin Luo , Yuchen Shi , Dixuan Wang , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang

Few-shot object detection, which aims at detecting novel objects rapidly from extremely few annotated examples of previously unseen classes, has attracted significant research interest in the community. Most existing approaches employ the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Limeng Qiao , Yuxuan Zhao , Zhiyuan Li , Xi Qiu , Jianan Wu , Chi Zhang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a crucial upstream task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Traditional tag scheme approaches offer a single recognition that does not meet the needs of many downstream tasks such as coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Wendong He , Yizhen Shao , Pingjian Zhang

Named-entity recognition (NER) is a task that typically requires large annotated datasets, which limits its applicability across domains with varying entity definitions. This paper addresses few-shot NER, aiming to transfer knowledge to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ayoub Hammal , Benno Uthayasooriyar , Caio Corro

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation addresses the challenge of segmenting objects in query images with only a handful of annotated examples. However, many previous state-of-the-art methods either have to discard intricate local semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohammad Reza Jahed Motlagh

Few-shot image classification learns to recognize new categories from limited labelled data. Metric learning based approaches have been widely investigated, where a query sample is classified by finding the nearest prototype from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen , Shih-Fu Chang

Although prototypical network (ProtoNet) has proved to be an effective method for few-shot sound event detection, two problems still exist. Firstly, the small-scaled support set is insufficient so that the class prototypes may not represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Dongchao Yang , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Zhongjie Ye , Wenwu Wang

To tackle Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks, supervised methods need to obtain sufficient cleanly annotated data, which is labor and time consuming. On the contrary, distantly supervised methods acquire automatically annotated data using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shifeng Liu , Yifang Sun , Bing Li , Wei Wang , Xiang Zhao

This paper presents a novel framework, MGNER, for Multi-Grained Named Entity Recognition where multiple entities or entity mentions in a sentence could be non-overlapping or totally nested. Different from traditional approaches regarding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Tao Yang , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Xian Wu , Wei Fan , Fenglong Ma , Philip Yu

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

Named entity recognition (NER) for identifying proper nouns in unstructured text is one of the most important and fundamental tasks in natural language processing. However, despite the widespread use of NER models, they still require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Zhifeng Hao , Di Lv , Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Wen Wen , Boyan Xu

Most existing compound facial expression recognition (FER) methods rely on large-scale labeled compound expression data for training. However, collecting such data is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xinyi Zou , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang

While Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a widely studied task, making inferences of entities with only a few labeled data has been challenging, especially for entities with nested structures. Unlike flat entities, entities and their nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Hong Ming , Jiaoyun Yang , Lili Jiang , Yan Pan , Ning An

Few-Shot Sequence Labeling (FSSL) is a canonical paradigm for the tagging models, e.g., named entity recognition and slot filling, to generalize on an emerging, resource-scarce domain. Recently, the metric-based meta-learning framework has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Peiyi Wang , Runxin Xu , Tianyu Liu , Qingyu Zhou , Yunbo Cao , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Deep networks can learn to accurately recognize objects of a category by training on a large number of annotated images. However, a meta-learning challenge known as a low-shot image recognition task comes when only a few images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Mengting Chen , Xinggang Wang , Heng Luo , Yifeng Geng , Wenyu Liu

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

Discontinuous Named Entity Recognition (DNER) presents a challenging problem where entities may be scattered across multiple non-adjacent tokens, making traditional sequence labelling approaches inadequate. Existing methods predominantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Rina Carines Cabral , Soyeon Caren Han , Areej Alhassan , Riza Batista-Navarro , Goran Nenadic , Josiah Poon

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems aims at recognizing new classes of entities based on a few labeled samples. A significant challenge in the few-shot regime is prone to overfitting than the tasks with abundant samples. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zhen Yang , Yongbin Liu , Chunping Ouyang

This paper proposes a structure-aware decoding method based on large language models to address the difficulty of traditional approaches in maintaining both semantic integrity and structural consistency in nested and overlapping entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhimin Qiu , Di Wu , Feng Liu , Yuxiao Wang