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State-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems have been improving continuously using neural architectures over the past several years. However, many tasks including NER require large sets of annotated data to achieve such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Parminder Bhatia , Kristjan Arumae , Busra Celikkaya

Specialized transformer-based models for encoding tabular data have gained interest in academia. Although tabular data is omnipresent in industry, applications of table transformers are still missing. In this paper, we study how these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Mark Buckley , Rakebul Hasan , Volker Tresp

For several purposes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis or Chatbot, Named Entity Recognition (NER) holds an important role as it helps to determine and categorize entities in text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Thong Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Pramod Rao

Named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) are two important tasks in information extraction and retrieval (IE \& IR). Recent work has demonstrated that it is beneficial to learn these tasks jointly, which avoids the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 John Giorgi , Xindi Wang , Nicola Sahar , Won Young Shin , Gary D. Bader , Bo Wang

Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kosuke Nishida , Naoki Yoshinaga , Kyosuke Nishida

Standard approaches in entity identification hard-code boundary detection and type prediction into labels (e.g., John/B-PER Smith/I-PER) and then perform Viterbi. This has two disadvantages: 1. the runtime complexity grows quadratically in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Karl Stratos

With the fast development of Deep Learning techniques, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is becoming more and more important in the information extraction task. The greatest difficulty that the NER task faces is to keep the detectability even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xin Chen , Qi Zhao , Xinyang Liu

We present a bi-encoder framework for named entity recognition (NER), which applies contrastive learning to map candidate text spans and entity types into the same vector representation space. Prior work predominantly approaches NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Sheng Zhang , Hao Cheng , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon

Nested named entity recognition identifies entities contained within other entities, but requires expensive multi-level annotation. While flat NER corpora exist abundantly, nested resources remain scarce. We investigate whether models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Igor Rozhkov , Natalia Loukachevitch

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

Despite advancements of end-to-end (E2E) models in speech recognition, named entity recognition (NER) is still challenging but critical for semantic understanding. Previous studies mainly focus on various rule-based or attention-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Peng Wang , Yifan Yang , Zheng Liang , Tian Tan , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

Named Entity Recognition(NER) is a task of recognizing entities at a token level in a sentence. This paper focuses on solving NER tasks in a multilingual setting for complex named entities. Our team, LLM-RM participated in the recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Rahul Mehta , Vasudeva Varma

Named entity discovery (NED) is an important information retrieval problem that can be decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem, named entity recognition (NER), aims to tag pre-defined sets of words in a vocabulary (called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Sammy Khalife , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Traditional information retrieval treats named entity recognition as a pre-indexing corpus annotation task, allowing entity tags to be indexed and used during search. Named entity taggers themselves are typically trained on thousands or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 John Foley , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , James Allan

Training a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model often involves fixing a taxonomy of entity types. However, requirements evolve and we might need the NER model to recognize additional entity types. A simple approach is to re-annotate entire…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in data annotation, opening the way for new approaches to solve classic NLP problems. In this paper, we show how to use LLMs to create NuNER, a compact language representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sergei Bogdanov , Alexandre Constantin , Timothée Bernard , Benoit Crabbé , Etienne Bernard

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to detect and classify the entity spans in the text. When entity spans overlap between each other, this problem is named as nested NER. Span-based methods have been widely used to tackle the nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Hang Yan , Yu Sun , Xiaonan Li , Xipeng Qiu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is essential in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Traditional NER models are effective but limited to a set of predefined entity types. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

Named entity recognition (NER) is an information extraction technique that aims to locate and classify named entities (e.g., organizations, locations,...) within a document into predefined categories. Correctly identifying these phrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tran Thi Hong Hanh , Antoine Doucet , Nicolas Sidere , Jose G. Moreno , Senja Pollak

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 in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves