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Large language models (LLMs) finetuned to follow human instruction have recently exhibited significant capabilities in various English NLP tasks. However, their performance in grammatical error correction (GEC), especially on languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Sang Yun Kwon , Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Alankar Jain , Bhargavi Paranjape , Zachary C. Lipton

Named Entity Recognition NER is very crucial for various natural language processing applications, including information extraction, machine translation, and sentiment analysis. Despite the ever-increasing interest in African languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 S. E Emedem , I. E Onyenwe , E. G Onyedinma

This paper summarizes the participation of the Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction (L3i laboratory) of the University of La Rochelle in the Recognizing Ultra Fine-grained Entities (RUFES) track within the Text Analysis Conference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Emanuela Boros , Antoine Doucet

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

Accurately typing entity mentions from text segments is a fundamental task for various natural language processing applications. Many previous approaches rely on massive human-annotated data to perform entity typing. Nevertheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Yanzhen Shen , Yu Deng , Lucian Popa , Larisa Shwartz , ChengXiang Zhai , Jiawei Han

Deep neural network models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance gains in a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks (Young, Hazarika, Poria, & Cambria, 2017). However, these gains rely on the availability of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Maximilian Hofer , Andrey Kormilitzin , Paul Goldberg , Alejo Nevado-Holgado

We present a simple, model-agnostic post-processing technique for fine-grained Arabic readability classification in the BAREC 2025 Shared Task (19 ordinal levels). Our method applies conformal prediction to generate prediction sets with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ahmed Abdou

We consider the challenging problem of entity typing over an extremely fine grained set of types, wherein a single mention or entity can have many simultaneous and often hierarchically-structured types. Despite the importance of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Shikhar Murty , Patrick Verga , Luke Vilnis , Andrew McCallum

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

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) identifies named entities, including their spans and types, in natural language text and grounds them to the corresponding regions in associated images. Most existing approaches split…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Hongbing Li , Jiamin Liu , Shuo Zhang , Bo Xiao

Named entity recognition (NER) is an information extraction technique that aims to locate and classify named entities (e.g., organizations, locations,...) within a document into predefined categories. Correctly identifying these phrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tran Thi Hong Hanh , Antoine Doucet , Nicolas Sidere , Jose G. Moreno , Senja Pollak

Named entity discovery (NED) is an important information retrieval problem that can be decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem, named entity recognition (NER), aims to tag pre-defined sets of words in a vocabulary (called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Sammy Khalife , Michalis Vazirgiannis

External knowledge,e.g., entities and entity descriptions, can help humans understand texts. Many works have been explored to include external knowledge in the pre-trained models. These methods, generally, design pre-training tasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qinghua Zhao , Shuai Ma , Yuxuan Lei

Named entity recognition (NER) is widely used in natural language processing applications and downstream tasks. However, most NER tools target flat annotation from popular datasets, eschewing the semantic information available in nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Nicky Ringland , Xiang Dai , Ben Hachey , Sarvnaz Karimi , Cecile Paris , James R. Curran

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in natural language processing that aims to identify and extract key entities from unstructured text. We present a novel application of NER in plasma physics research articles and address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Muhammad Haris , Hans Höft , Markus M. Becker , Markus Stocker

We study clinical Named Entity Recognition (NER) on the CADEC corpus and compare three families of approaches: (i) BERT-style encoders (BERT Base, BioClinicalBERT, RoBERTa-large), (ii) GPT-4o used with few-shot in-context learning (ICL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Andrei Baroian

We created this CORD-NER dataset with comprehensive named entity recognition (NER) on the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) corpus (2020-03-13). This CORD-NER dataset covers 75 fine-grained entity types: In addition to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xuan Wang , Xiangchen Song , Bangzheng Li , Yingjun Guan , Jiawei Han

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

Recent work has shown the effectiveness of the word representations features in significantly improving supervised NER for the English language. In this study we investigate whether word representations can also boost supervised NER in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ismail El Bazi , Nabil Laachfoubi