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Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) detects named entities within text using only a few annotated examples. One promising line of research is to leverage natural language descriptions of each entity type: the common label PER might, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jonas Golde , Felix Hamborg , Alan Akbik

In many scenarios, named entity recognition (NER) models severely suffer from unlabeled entity problem, where the entities of a sentence may not be fully annotated. Through empirical studies performed on synthetic datasets, we find two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi

This paper evaluates Few-Shot Prompting with Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition (NER). Traditional NER systems rely on extensive labeled datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to obtain. Few-Shot Prompting or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hédi Zeghidi , Ludovic Moncla

Named entity recognition (NER) is the very first step in the linguistic processing of any new domain. It is currently a common process in BioNLP on English clinical text. However, it is still in its infancy in other major languages, as it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Fernando Sánchez León , Ana González Ledesma

Deep learning has yielded state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks including named entity recognition (NER). However, this typically requires large amounts of labeled data. In this work, we demonstrate that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yanyao Shen , Hyokun Yun , Zachary C. Lipton , Yakov Kronrod , Animashree Anandkumar

In this study, we address one of the challenges of developing NER models for scholarly domains, namely the scarcity of suitable labeled data. We experiment with an approach using predictions from a fine-tuned LLM model to aid non-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Julia Evans , Sameer Sadruddin , Jennifer D'Souza

This paper presents an iterative approach to performing Scientific Named Entity Recognition (SciNER) using BERT-based models. We leverage transfer learning to fine-tune pretrained models with a small but high-quality set of manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kartik Gupta

Pre-trained language models (PLM) are effective components of few-shot named entity recognition (NER) approaches when augmented with continued pre-training on task-specific out-of-domain data or fine-tuning on in-domain data. However, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yuxuan Chen , Jonas Mikkelsen , Arne Binder , Christoph Alt , Leonhard Hennig

Named entity recognition (NER) is a vital task in spoken language understanding, which aims to identify mentions of named entities in text e.g., from transcribed speech. Existing neural models for NER rely mostly on dedicated word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Abdalghani Abujabal , Judith Gaspers

Most state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) rely on the availability of large amounts of labeled data, making them challenging to extend to new, lower-resourced languages. However, there are now several proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Aditi Chaudhary , Jiateng Xie , Zaid Sheikh , Graham Neubig , Jaime G. Carbonell

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

As the categories of named entities rapidly increase, the deployed NER models are required to keep updating toward recognizing more entity types, creating a demand for class-incremental learning for NER. Considering the privacy concerns and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ruotian Ma , Xuanting Chen , Lin Zhang , Xin Zhou , Junzhe Wang , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xiang Gao , Yunwen Chen

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in numerous downstream applications. Recently, researchers have employed pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) to address this task. However, fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yufei Zhao , Xiaoshi Zhong , Erik Cambria , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in NLP systems for question answering, information retrieval, relation extraction, etc. NER systems have been studied and developed widely for decades, but accurate systems using deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard

With the proliferation of models for natural language processing tasks, it is even harder to understand the differences between models and their relative merits. Simply looking at differences between holistic metrics such as accuracy, BLEU,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jinlan Fu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Language model (LM) pretraining has led to consistent improvements in many NLP downstream tasks, including named entity recognition (NER). In this paper, we present T-NER (Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition), a Python library for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados

Current systems of fine-grained entity typing use distant supervision in conjunction with existing knowledge bases to assign categories (type labels) to entity mentions. However, the type labels so obtained from knowledge bases are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Xiang Ren , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

Traditional language models are unable to efficiently model entity names observed in text. All but the most popular named entities appear infrequently in text providing insufficient context. Recent efforts have recognized that context can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Angli Liu , Jingfei Du , Veselin Stoyanov

Named entity recognition (NER) has been one of the essential preliminary steps in modern NLP applications. This report focuses on implementing the NER task on finetuning two pretrained models: (i) an encoder-only model (BERT) with a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mei Jia