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Interest in solving table interpretation tasks has grown over the years, yet it still relies on existing datasets that may be overly simplified. This is potentially reducing the effectiveness of the dataset for thorough evaluation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Ahmed Hatem , Thomas Runkler , Volker Tresp

Identifying named entities such as a person, location or organization, in documents can highlight key information to readers. Training Named Entity Recognition (NER) models requires an annotated data set, which can be a time-consuming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ting Wai Terence Au , Ingemar J. Cox , Vasileios Lampos

Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data. There have been efforts on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Xiaotao Gu , Teng Ren , Jiawei Han

Neural methods have been shown to achieve high performance in Named Entity Recognition (NER), but rely on costly high-quality labeled data for training, which is not always available across languages. While previous works have shown that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Weile Chen , Huiqiang Jiang , Qianhui Wu , Börje F. Karlsson , Yi Guan

Named entity recognition (NER) is highly sensitive to sentential syntactic and semantic properties where entities may be extracted according to how they are used and placed in the running text. To model such properties, one could rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yuyang Nie , Yuanhe Tian , Yan Song , Xiang Ao , Xiang Wan

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The…

Traditional named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify text mentions into pre-defined entity types. Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is introduced since entity categories are continuously increasing in various real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yawen Yang , Fukun Ma , Shiao Meng , Aiwei Liu , Lijie Wen

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

Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in information extraction, which has a significant impact on downstream applications. Due to the lack of natural separators in Chinese, previous NER methods mostly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yaqiong Qiao , Shixuan Peng

The aim of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is to identify references of named entities in unstructured documents, and to classify them into pre-defined semantic categories. NER often aids from added background knowledge in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-24 S. Thenmalar , J. Balaji , T. V. Geetha

Cloud storage has become the backbone of modern data infrastructure, yet privacy and efficient data retrieval remain significant challenges. Traditional privacy-preserving approaches primarily focus on enhancing database security but fail…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Azrin Sultana , Hasibur Rashid Chayon

Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

Nested Named Entity Recognition (NNER) focuses on addressing overlapped entity recognition. Compared to Flat Named Entity Recognition (FNER), annotated resources are scarce in the corpus for NNER. Data augmentation is an effective approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xingming Liao , Nankai Lin , Haowen Li , Lianglun Cheng , Zhuowei Wang , Chong Chen

Named entities recognition (NER) and disambiguation (NED) can add semantic context to the recognized named entities in texts. Named entity linkage in texts, regardless of a domain, provides links between the entities mentioned in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Weronika Lajewska , Anna Wroblewska

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task in natural language processing, yet it remains particularly challenging for discontinuous entities. The primary difficulty lies in text segmentation, as traditional methods often missegment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wen-Fang Su , Hsiao-Wei Chou , Wen-Yang Lin

We cast nested named entity recognition (NNER) as a sequence labeling task by leveraging prior work that linearizes constituency structures, effectively reducing the complexity of this structured prediction problem to straightforward token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz , David Vilares , Caio Corro , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Named entity recognition (NER) is an extensively studied task that extracts and classifies named entities in a text. NER is crucial not only in downstream language processing applications such as relation extraction and question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Gizem Aras , Didem Makaroglu , Seniz Demir , Altan Cakir

Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Recent studies have explored various approaches for treating candidate named entity spans as both source and target sequences in named entity recognition (NER) by leveraging large language models (LLMs). Although previous approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sungwoo Han , Hyeyeon Kim , Jingun Kwon , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Manabu Okumura

Existing deep active learning algorithms achieve impressive sampling efficiency on natural language processing tasks. However, they exhibit several weaknesses in practice, including (a) inability to use uncertainty sampling with black-box…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Haw-Shiuan Chang , Shankar Vembu , Sunil Mohan , Rheeya Uppaal , Andrew McCallum