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Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the tasks in natural language processing that can greatly benefit from the use of external knowledge sources. We propose a named entity recognition framework composed of knowledge-based feature…

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Named Entity Recognition (NER) or the extraction of concepts from clinical text is the task of identifying entities in text and slotting them into categories such as problems, treatments, tests, clinical departments, occurrences (such as…

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The number of biomedical literature on new biomedical concepts is rapidly increasing, which necessitates a reliable biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) model for identifying new and unseen entity mentions. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hyunjae Kim , Jaewoo Kang

The increasing depth of parametric domain knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is fueling their rapid deployment in real-world applications. Understanding model vulnerabilities in high-stakes and knowledge-intensive tasks is essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 R. Patrick Xian , Alex J. Lee , Satvik Lolla , Vincent Wang , Qiming Cui , Russell Ro , Reza Abbasi-Asl

Named entity recognition (NER) stands as a fundamental and pivotal task within the realm of Natural Language Processing. Particularly within the domain of Biomedical Method NER, this task presents notable challenges, stemming from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chen Tang , Bohao Yang , Kun Zhao , Bo Lv , Chenghao Xiao , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

Clinical named entity recognition (NER) aims to retrieve important entities within clinical narratives. Recent works have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance in this task. While previous works focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Reza Averly , Xia Ning

Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaolei Huang , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng

Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) refers to the task of resolving multiple named entity mentions in a document to their correct references in a knowledge base (KB) (e.g., Wikipedia). In this paper, we propose a novel embedding method…

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A major challenge in Entity Linking (EL) is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions to Wikipedia that might refer to different entities in different contexts. The problem exacerbates with cross-lingual EL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Gourab Kundu , Radu Florian , Wael Hamza

Named entity recognition is a key component of Information Extraction (IE), particularly in scientific domains such as biomedicine and chemistry, where large language models (LLMs), e.g., ChatGPT, fall short. We investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hongyi Liu , Qingyun Wang , Payam Karisani , Heng Ji

In Natural Language Processing, entity linking (EL) has centered around Wikipedia, but yet remains underexplored for the job market domain. Disambiguating skill mentions can help us get insight into the current labor market demands. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Mike Zhang , Rob van der Goot , Barbara Plank

In this work, we revisit the problem of semi-supervised named entity recognition (NER) focusing on extremely light supervision, consisting of a lexicon containing only 10 examples per class. We introduce ELLEN, a simple, fully modular,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Haris Riaz , Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru , Mihai Surdeanu

Entity linking is the task of linking mentions of named entities in natural language text, to entities in a curated knowledge-base. This is of significant importance in the biomedical domain, where it could be used to semantically annotate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ming Zhu , Busra Celikkaya , Parminder Bhatia , Chandan K. Reddy

Biomedical entity linking maps textual mentions to concepts in structured knowledge bases such as UMLS or SNOMED CT. Most existing systems link each mention independently, using only the mention or its surrounding sentence. This ignores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Adam Remaki , Xavier Tannier , Christel Gérardin

Cross-lingual entity linking (XEL) grounds named entities in a source language to an English Knowledge Base (KB), such as Wikipedia. XEL is challenging for most languages because of limited availability of requisite resources. However, much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Shuyan Zhou , Shruti Rijhwani , Graham Neubig

Pre-trained models such as BERT are widely used in NLP tasks and are fine-tuned to improve the performance of various NLP tasks consistently. Nevertheless, the fine-tuned BERT model trained on our protocol corpus still has a weak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Shoubin Li , Wenzao Cui , Yujiang Liu , Xuran Ming , Jun Hu , YuanzheHu , Qing Wang

Generative models have become widely used in biomedical entity linking (BioEL) due to their excellent performance and efficient memory usage. However, these models are usually trained only with positive samples, i.e., entities that match…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chanhwi Kim , Hyunjae Kim , Sihyeon Park , Jiwoo Lee , Mujeen Sung , Jaewoo Kang

Entity linking (EL) aligns textual mentions with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, facilitating various applications such as semantic search and question answering. Recent advances in multimodal entity linking (MEL) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Juyeon Kim , Geon Lee , Taeuk Kim , Kijung Shin

Biomedical entity linking is the task of identifying mentions of biomedical concepts in text documents and mapping them to canonical entities in a target thesaurus. Recent advancements in entity linking using BERT-based models follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Rajarshi Bhowmik , Karl Stratos , Gerard de Melo

Named entity discovery and linking is the fundamental and core component of question answering. In Question Entity Discovery and Linking (QEDL) problem, traditional methods are challenged because multiple entities in one short question are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kai Lei , Bing Zhang , Yong Liu , Yang Deng , Dongyu Zhang , Ying Shen