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NLP benchmarks rely on standardized datasets for training and evaluating models and are crucial for advancing the field. Traditionally, expert annotations ensure high-quality labels; however, the cost of expert annotation does not scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Omer Nahum , Nitay Calderon , Orgad Keller , Idan Szpektor , Roi Reichart

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely studied task in natural language processing. Recently, a growing number of studies have focused on the nested NER. The span-based methods, considering the entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zeqi Tan , Yongliang Shen , Shuai Zhang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Simple yet effective data augmentation techniques have been proposed for sentence-level and sentence-pair natural language processing tasks. Inspired by these efforts, we design and compare data augmentation for named entity recognition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xiang Dai , Heike Adel

Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Pierre Lison , Aliaksandr Hubin , Jeremy Barnes , Samia Touileb

This paper presents a framework for Named Entity Recognition (NER) leveraging the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model in natural language processing (NLP). NER is a fundamental task in NLP with broad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mo Sun , Siheng Xiong , Yuankai Cai , Bowen Zuo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various sectors, including healthcare where they are employed in diverse applications. Their utility is particularly significant in the context of rare diseases, where data scarcity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qiuhao Lu , Rui Li , Andrew Wen , Jinlian Wang , Liwei Wang , Hongfang Liu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing, concerned with identifying spans of text expressing references to entities. NER research is often focused on flat entities only (flat NER), ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Juntao Yu , Bernd Bohnet , Massimo Poesio

The advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred a growing interest in their application to Named Entity Recognition (NER) methods. However, existing datasets are primarily designed for traditional machine learning methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hanjun Luo , Yingbin Jin , Xinfeng Li , Xuecheng Liu , Ruizhe Chen , Tong Shang , Kun Wang , Qingsong Wen , Zuozhu Liu

Data processing is an important step in various natural language processing tasks. As the commonly used datasets in named entity recognition contain only a limited number of samples, it is important to obtain additional labeled data in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , David Thulke , Weiyue Wang , Christian Dugast , Hermann Ney

In this paper, we propose a new strategy for the task of named entity recognition (NER). We cast the task as a query-based machine reading comprehension task: e.g., the task of extracting entities with PER is formalized as answering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Zijun Sun , Jiwei Li

Many contemporary data-driven research efforts in the natural sciences, such as chemistry and materials science, require large-scale, high-performance entity recognition from scientific datasets. Large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zihan Chen , Lei Shi , Weize Wu , Qiji Zhou , Yue Zhang

In this work, we propose a two-stage method for named entity recognition (NER), especially for nested NER. We borrowed the idea from the two-stage Object Detection in computer vision and the way how they construct the loss function. First,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Bing Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities for generalizing in unseen tasks. In the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task, recent advancements have seen the remarkable improvement of LLMs in a broad range of entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuyang Ding , Juntao Li , Pinzheng Wang , Zecheng Tang , Bowen Yan , Min Zhang

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

State-of-the-art supervised NLP models achieve high accuracy but are also susceptible to failures on inputs from low-data regimes, such as domains that are not represented in training data. As an approximation to collecting ground-truth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Parikshit Bansal , Amit Sharma

A large amount of information in today's world is now stored in knowledge bases. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a process of extracting, disambiguation, and linking an entity from raw text to insightful and structured knowledge bases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Monica Munnangi

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task that aims to identify structured information, which is often replete with complex, technical terms and a high degree of variability. Accurate and reliable NER can facilitate the extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Grace Yang , Zhiyi Li , Yadong Liu , Jungyeul Park

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

The use of LLMs for natural language processing has become a popular trend in the past two years, driven by their formidable capacity for context comprehension and learning, which has inspired a wave of research from academics and industry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Faren Yan , Peng Yu , Xin Chen

Many recent named entity recognition (NER) studies criticize flat NER for its non-overlapping assumption, and switch to investigating nested NER. However, existing nested NER models heavily rely on training data annotated with nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Enwei Zhu , Yiyang Liu , Ming Jin , Jinpeng Li