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Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to identify named entities with very little annotated data. Previous methods solve this problem based on token-wise classification, which ignores the information of entity boundaries, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jianing Wang , Chengcheng Han , Chengyu Wang , Chuanqi Tan , Minghui Qiu , Songfang Huang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao

Few-shot named entity recognition can identify new types of named entities based on a few labeled examples. Previous methods employing token-level or span-level metric learning suffer from the computational burden and a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Congying Liu , Gaosheng Wang , Peipei Liu , Xingyuan Wei , Hongsong Zhu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems aims at recognizing new classes of entities based on a few labeled samples. A significant challenge in the few-shot regime is prone to overfitting than the tasks with abundant samples. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zhen Yang , Yongbin Liu , Chunping Ouyang

To tackle Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks, supervised methods need to obtain sufficient cleanly annotated data, which is labor and time consuming. On the contrary, distantly supervised methods acquire automatically annotated data using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shifeng Liu , Yifang Sun , Bing Li , Wei Wang , Xiang Zhao

While Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a widely studied task, making inferences of entities with only a few labeled data has been challenging, especially for entities with nested structures. Unlike flat entities, entities and their nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Hong Ming , Jiaoyun Yang , Lili Jiang , Yan Pan , Ning An

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

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

We present a bi-encoder framework for named entity recognition (NER), which applies contrastive learning to map candidate text spans and entity types into the same vector representation space. Prior work predominantly approaches NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Sheng Zhang , Hao Cheng , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) enables us to build a NER system for a new domain using very few labeled examples. However, existing prototypical networks for this task suffer from roughly estimated label dependency and closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Bin Ji , Shasha Li , Shaoduo Gan , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Huijun Liu

Supervised named entity recognition (NER) in the biomedical domain depends on large sets of annotated texts with the given named entities. The creation of such datasets can be time-consuming and expensive, while extraction of new entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miloš Košprdić , Nikola Prodanović , Adela Ljajić , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević

Recently, prompt-based learning for pre-trained language models has succeeded in few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) by exploiting prompts as task guidance to increase label efficiency. However, previous prompt-based methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Andy T. Liu , Wei Xiao , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Shang-Wen Li , Andrew Arnold

We introduce FewTopNER, a novel framework that integrates few-shot named entity recognition (NER) with topic-aware contextual modeling to address the challenges of cross-lingual and low-resource scenarios. FewTopNER leverages a shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ibrahim Bouabdallaoui , Fatima Guerouate , Samya Bouhaddour , Chaimae Saadi , Mohammed Sbihi

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Few-Shot setting is imperative for entity tagging in low resource domains. Existing approaches only learn class-specific semantic features and intermediate representations from source domains. This affects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Arzoo Katiyar , Rebecca J. Passonneau , Rui Zhang

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models has recently become a common practice in building NLP models for various tasks, especially few-shot tasks. We argue that under the few-shot setting, formulating fine-tuning closer to the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zihan Wang , Kewen Zhao , Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang

Recently, several specialized instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for Named Entity Recognition (NER) have emerged. Compared to traditional NER approaches, these models have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Andrew Zamai , Andrea Zugarini , Leonardo Rigutini , Marco Ernandes , Marco Maggini

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a task aiming to identify named entities via limited annotated samples. Recently, prototypical networks have shown promising performance in few-shot NER. Most of prototypical networks will utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mozhi Zhang , Hang Yan , Yaqian Zhou , Xipeng Qiu

Despite the huge and continuous advances in computational linguistics, the lack of annotated data for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is still a challenging issue, especially in low-resource languages and when domain knowledge is required…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Valerio La Gatta , Vincenzo Moscato , Marco Postiglione , Giancarlo Sperlì

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying named entities based on only few labeled instances. Current few-shot NER methods focus on leveraging existing datasets in the rich-resource domains which might fail in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zeng Yang , Linhai Zhang , Deyu Zhou

Few-shot NER aims to identify entities of target types with only limited number of illustrative instances. Unfortunately, few-shot NER is severely challenged by the intrinsic precise generalization problem, i.e., it is hard to accurately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiawei Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Yaojie Lu , Shanshan Jiang , Bin Dong , Le Sun