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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

The challenges of high intra-class variance yet low inter-class fluctuations in fine-grained visual categorization are more severe with few labeled samples, \textit{i.e.,} Fine-Grained categorization problems under the Few-Shot setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Huaxi Huang , Junjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Chang Xu

We present a weakly-supervised data augmentation approach to improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a challenging domain: extracting biomedical entities (e.g., proteins) from the scientific literature. First, we train a neural NER (NNER)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Mathew , Shobeir Fakhraei , José Luis Ambite

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) exploits limited annotated instances to identify named mentions. Effectively transferring the internal or external resources thus becomes the key to few-shot NER. While the existing prompt tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiang Liu , Hao Fei , Fei Li , Jingye Li , Bobo Li , Liang Zhao , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Named Entity Recognition (NER) involves identifying and categorizing named entities within textual data. Despite its significance, NER research has often overlooked low-resource languages like Myanmar (Burmese), primarily due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kaung Lwin Thant , Kwankamol Nongpong , Ye Kyaw Thu , Thura Aung , Khaing Hsu Wai , Thazin Myint Oo

Lately, instruction-based techniques have made significant strides in improving performance in few-shot learning scenarios. They achieve this by bridging the gap between pre-trained language models and fine-tuning for specific downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hiranmai Sri Adibhatla , Pavan Baswani , Manish Shrivastava

The state-of-the-art recommendation systems have shifted the attention to efficient recommendation, e.g., on-device recommendation, under memory constraints. To this end, the existing methods either focused on the lightweight embeddings for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yang Wang , Haipeng Liu , Zeqian Yi , Biao Qian , Meng Wang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Namrata Nath , Sang-Heon Lee , Ivan Lee

The extraction of critical information from crime-related documents is a crucial task for law enforcement agencies. Named-Entity Recognition (NER) can perform this task in extracting information about the crime, the criminal, or law…

Fine-grained classification models are designed to focus on the relevant details necessary to distinguish highly similar classes, particularly when intra-class variance is high and inter-class variance is low. Most existing models rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Nicola Landro

Domain-specific named entity recognition (NER) on Computer Science (CS) scholarly articles is an information extraction task that is arguably more challenging for the various annotation aims that can beset the task and has been less studied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

Fine-grained entity typing aims to assign entity mentions in the free text with types arranged in a hierarchical structure. Traditional distant supervision based methods employ a structured data source as a weak supervision and do not need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Denghui Zhang , Pengshan Cai , Yantao Jia , Manling Li , Yuanzhuo Wang , Xueqi Cheng

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

We consider the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) on biomedical scientific literature, and more specifically the genomic variants recognition in this work. Significant success has been achieved for NER on canonical tasks in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chaoran Cheng , Fei Tan , Zhi Wei

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, which is significant and fundamental for various downstream applications, e.g., knowledge base completion, question answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Ning Liu , Haitao Yuan , Wei Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Jianyong Wang

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

We investigate the problem of reducing mistake severity for fine-grained classification. Fine-grained classification can be challenging, mainly due to the requirement of domain expertise for accurate annotation. However, humans are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kanishk Jain , Shyamgopal Karthik , Vineet Gandhi

In nested Named entity recognition (NER), entities are nested with each other, and thus requiring more data annotations to address. This leads to the development of few-shot nested NER, where the prevalence of pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Meishan Zhang , Bin Wang , Hao Fei , Min Zhang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in domains like e-commerce is an understudied problem due to the lack of annotated datasets. Recognizing novel entity types in this domain, such as products, components, and attributes, is challenging because…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Hanchu Zhang , Leonhard Hennig , Christoph Alt , Changjian Hu , Yao Meng , Chao Wang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the rare disease domain poses unique challenges due to limited labeled data, semantic ambiguity between entity types, and long-tail distributions. In this study, we evaluate the capabilities of GPT-4o for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nan Miles Xi , Yu Deng , Lin Wang