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Named entity recognition (NER) of chemicals and drugs is a critical domain of information extraction in biochemical research. NER provides support for text mining in biochemical reactions, including entity relation extraction, attribute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jian Liu , Lei Gao , Sujie Guo , Rui Ding , Xin Huang , Long Ye , Qinghua Meng , Asef Nazari , Dhananjay Thiruvady

Many previous models of named entity recognition (NER) suffer from the problem of Out-of-Entity (OOE), i.e., the tokens in the entity mentions of the test samples have not appeared in the training samples, which hinders the achievement of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Guochao Jiang , Ziqin Luo , Chengwei Hu , Zepeng Ding , Deqing Yang

Continual learning is the ability to acquire new knowledge without forgetting the previously learned one, assuming no further access to past training data. Neural network approximators trained with gradient descent are known to fail in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rodrigue Siry

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence due to catastrophic forgetting. Large language models (LLMs) are often impractical to frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu

The two main challenges faced by continual learning approaches are catastrophic forgetting and memory limitations on the storage of data. To cope with these challenges, we propose a novel, cognitively-inspired approach which trains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Named entity recognition (NER) for identifying proper nouns in unstructured text is one of the most important and fundamental tasks in natural language processing. However, despite the widespread use of NER models, they still require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Zhifeng Hao , Di Lv , Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Wen Wen , Boyan Xu

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the best studied tasks in natural language processing. However, most approaches are not capable of handling nested structures which are common in many applications. In this paper we introduce a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Joseph Fisher , Andreas Vlachos

Recognizing entities in texts is a central need in many information-seeking scenarios, and indeed, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is arguably one of the most successful examples of a widely adopted NLP task and corresponding NLP technology.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Uri Katz , Matan Vetzler , Amir DN Cohen , Yoav Goldberg

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

This paper describes an approach for automatic construction of dictionaries for Named Entity Recognition (NER) using large amounts of unlabeled data and a few seed examples. We use Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to obtain lower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Arvind Neelakantan , Michael Collins

Deep neural networks (DNNS) excel at learning from static datasets but struggle with continual learning, where data arrives sequentially. Catastrophic forgetting, the phenomenon of forgetting previously learned knowledge, is a primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 S Balasubramanian , M Sai Subramaniam , Sai Sriram Talasu , Yedu Krishna P , Manepalli Pranav Phanindra Sai , Ravi Mukkamala , Darshan Gera

The primary goal of continual learning (CL) task in medical image segmentation field is to solve the "catastrophic forgetting" problem, where the model totally forgets previously learned features when it is extended to new categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qian Chen , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Xinliang Zhang , Shuang Zeng , Qiushi Ren , Yanye Lu

Continual learning (CL) learns a sequence of tasks incrementally with the goal of achieving two main objectives: overcoming catastrophic forgetting (CF) and encouraging knowledge transfer (KT) across tasks. However, most existing techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu , Nianzu Ma , Hu Xu , Lei Shu

Standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly trained in an end-to-end fashion for specific tasks such as object recognition, face identification, or character recognition, among many examples. This specificity often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raphaël Achddou , J. Matias di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

In cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER), self-training is commonly used to bridge the linguistic gap by training on pseudo-labeled target-language data. However, due to sub-optimal performance on target languages, the pseudo labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ran Zhou , Xin Li , Lidong Bing , Erik Cambria , Chunyan Miao

Updating diffusion models in an incremental setting would be practical in real-world applications yet computationally challenging. We present a novel learning strategy of Concept Neuron Selection (CNS), a simple yet effective approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yu-Chien Liao , Jr-Jen Chen , Chi-Pin Huang , Ci-Siang Lin , Meng-Lin Wu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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

Named entity recognition (NER) suffers from the scarcity of annotated training data, especially for low-resource languages without labeled data. Cross-lingual NER has been proposed to alleviate this issue by transferring knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jian Yang , Shaohan Huang , Shuming Ma , Yuwei Yin , Li Dong , Dongdong Zhang , Hongcheng Guo , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

In this paper, we address the incremental classifier learning problem, which suffers from catastrophic forgetting. The main reason for catastrophic forgetting is that the past data are not available during learning. Typical approaches keep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yue Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Lijuan Wang , Yuancheng Ye , Zicheng Liu , Yandong Guo , Zhengyou Zhang , Yun Fu