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Inspired by recent advances in retrieval augmented methods in NLP~\citep{khandelwal2019generalization,khandelwal2020nearest,meng2021gnn}, in this paper, we introduce a $k$ nearest neighbor NER ($k$NN-NER) framework, which augments the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shuhe Wang , Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Tianwei Zhang , Rongbin Ouyang , Jiwei Li , Guoyin Wang

Named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) are two fundamentally related tasks, since in order to perform EL, first the mentions to entities have to be detected. However, most entity linking approaches disregard the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Background and Objective: Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER) is a foundational task in medical informatics, crucial for downstream applications like drug discovery and clinical trial matching. However, adapting general-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jian Chen , Leilei Su , Cong Sun

Entity Linking aims to link entity mentions in texts to knowledge bases, and neural models have achieved recent success in this task. However, most existing methods rely on local contexts to resolve entities independently, which may usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yixin Cao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Zhiyuan Liu

Biomedical question-answering (QA) has gained increased attention for its capability to provide users with high-quality information from a vast scientific literature. Although an increasing number of biomedical QA datasets has been recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Gabriele Pergola , Elena Kochkina , Lin Gui , Maria Liakata , Yulan He

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) presents unique challenges due to specialized vocabularies, the sheer volume of entities, and the continuous emergence of novel entities. Traditional NER models, constrained by fixed taxonomies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Anthony Yazdani , Ihor Stepanov , Douglas Teodoro

Entity linkage (EL) is a critical problem in data cleaning and integration. In the past several decades, EL has typically been done by rule-based systems or traditional machine learning models with hand-curated features, both of which…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhengyang Wang , Bunyamin Sisman , Hao Wei , Xin Luna Dong , Shuiwang Ji

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated dominating performance in many NLP tasks, especially on generative tasks. However, they often fall short in some information extraction tasks, particularly those requiring domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junyi Bian , Jiaxuan Zheng , Yuyi Zhang , Shanfeng Zhu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) are essential tools in distilling knowledge from biomedical literature. This paper presents our findings from participating in BioNLP Shared Tasks 2019. We addressed Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Usama Yaseen , Pankaj Gupta , Hinrich Schütze

Progress in biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Entity Linking (EL) is currently hindered by a fragmented data landscape, a lack of resources for building explainable models, and the limitations of semantically-blind evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Nishant Mishra , Wilker Aziz , Iacer Calixto

We introduce GENomic Encoding REpresentation with Language Model (GENEREL), a framework designed to bridge genetic and biomedical knowledge bases. What sets GENEREL apart is its ability to fine-tune language models to infuse biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongyi Yuan , Suqi Liu , Kelly Cho , Katherine Liao , Alexandre Pereira , Tianxi Cai

Entity Linking (EL), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

Developing high-performing systems for detecting biomedical named entities has major implications. State-of-the-art deep-learning based solutions for entity recognition often require large annotated datasets, which is not available in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Arda Akdemir , Tetsuo Shibuya

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in web text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL plays an important role in the fields of knowledge engineering and data mining, underlying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Wei Shen , Yuhan Li , Yinan Liu , Jiawei Han , Jianyong Wang , Xiaojie Yuan

Entity linking (EL), the task of disambiguating mentions in text by linking them to entities in a knowledge graph, is crucial for text understanding, question answering or conversational systems. Entity linking on short text (e.g., single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hang Jiang , Sairam Gurajada , Qiuhao Lu , Sumit Neelam , Lucian Popa , Prithviraj Sen , Yunyao Li , Alexander Gray

Motivation: Biomedical named-entity normalization involves connecting biomedical entities with distinct database identifiers in order to facilitate data integration across various fields of biology. Existing systems for biomedical named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zainab Awan , Tim Kahlke , Peter Ralph , Paul Kennedy

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER), task6 in BioASQ (A challenge in large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering), is crucial for extracting information from scientific literature but faces hurdles such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ritesh Mehta

Entity linking (EL) for biomedical text is typically benchmarked on English-only corpora with flat mentions, leaving the more realistic scenario of nested and multilingual mentions largely unexplored. We present our system for the BioNNE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chunyu Li , Xindi Zheng , Siqi Liu

Cross-lingual entity linking (XEL) is the task of finding referents in a target-language knowledge base (KB) for mentions extracted from source-language texts. The first step of (X)EL is candidate generation, which retrieves a list of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Shuyan Zhou , Shruti Rijhwani , John Wieting , Jaime Carbonell , Graham Neubig

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable versatility in various NLP tasks but encounter distinct challenges in biomedical due to the complexities of language and data scarcity. This paper investigates LLMs application in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Masoud Monajatipoor , Jiaxin Yang , Joel Stremmel , Melika Emami , Fazlolah Mohaghegh , Mozhdeh Rouhsedaghat , Kai-Wei Chang