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Current work in named entity recognition (NER) shows that data augmentation techniques can produce more robust models. However, most existing techniques focus on augmenting in-domain data in low-resource scenarios where annotated data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuguang Chen , Gustavo Aguilar , Leonardo Neves , Thamar Solorio

Named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify mentions of named entities in an unstructured text and classify them into predefined named entity classes. While deep learning-based pre-trained language models help to achieve good predictive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ali Osman Berk Sapci , Oznur Tastan , Reyyan Yeniterzi

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and domains. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying and classifying proper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shibingfeng Zhang , Giovanni Colavizza

How to effectively learn from unlabeled data from the target domain is crucial for domain adaptation, as it helps reduce the large performance gap due to domain shift or distribution change. In this paper, we propose an easy-to-implement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Chaofan Tao , Fengmao Lv , Lixin Duan , Min Wu

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

In biomedical literature, it is common for entity boundaries to not align with word boundaries. Therefore, effective identification of entity spans requires approaches capable of considering tokens that are smaller than words. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Emily Sheng , Prem Natarajan

State-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems have been improving continuously using neural architectures over the past several years. However, many tasks including NER require large sets of annotated data to achieve such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Parminder Bhatia , Kristjan Arumae , Busra Celikkaya

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has huge impact on our daily lives with applications such as voice assistants, facial recognition, chatbots, autonomously driving cars, etc. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a cross-discipline of AI and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Klim Zaporojets

We propose a transfer learning method that utilizes data representations in a semiparametric regression model. Our aim is to perform statistical inference on the parameter of primary interest in the target model while accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-21 Baihua He , Huihang Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Jian Huang

Domain adaptation seeks to mitigate the shift between training on the \emph{source} domain and testing on the \emph{target} domain. Most adaptation methods rely on the source data by joint optimization over source data and target data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Dequan Wang , Shaoteng Liu , Sayna Ebrahimi , Evan Shelhamer , Trevor Darrell

We present the zero-shot entity linking task, where mentions must be linked to unseen entities without in-domain labeled data. The goal is to enable robust transfer to highly specialized domains, and so no metadata or alias tables are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Ming-Wei Chang , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova , Jacob Devlin , Honglak Lee

This work models named entity distribution from a way of visualizing topological structure of embedding space, so that we make an assumption that most, if not all, named entities (NEs) for a language tend to aggregate together to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Zhuosheng Zhang , Bingjie Tang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

In recent years, research has mainly focused on the general NER task. There still have some challenges with nested NER task in the specific domains. Specifically, the scenarios of low resource and class imbalance impede the wide application…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jian Zhang , Tianqing Zhang , Qi Li , Hongwei Wang

Current systems of fine-grained entity typing use distant supervision in conjunction with existing knowledge bases to assign categories (type labels) to entity mentions. However, the type labels so obtained from knowledge bases are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Xiang Ren , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

This project investigates the efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in understanding and extracting scientific knowledge across specific domains and to create a deep learning framework: Knowledge AI. As a part of this framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Balaji Muralidharan , Hayden Beadles , Reza Marzban , Kalyan Sashank Mupparaju

One challenge of object recognition is to generalize to new domains, to more classes and/or to new modalities. This necessitates methods to combine and reuse existing datasets that may belong to different domains, have partial annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Rui Gong , Dengxin Dai , Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Luc Van Gool

The clinical named entity recognition (CNER) task seeks to locate and classify clinical terminologies into predefined categories, such as diagnostic procedure, disease disorder, severity, medication, medication dosage, and sign symptom.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yichao Zhou , Chelsea Ju , J. Harry Caufield , Kevin Shih , Calvin Chen , Yizhou Sun , Kai-Wei Chang , Peipei Ping , Wei Wang

Transfer learning aims to faciliate learning tasks in a label-scarce target domain by leveraging knowledge from a related source domain with plenty of labeled data. Often times we may have multiple domains with little or no labeled data as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Tianchun Wang

Named entity recognition is a fundamental task in natural language processing, identifying the span and category of entities in unstructured texts. The traditional sequence labeling methodology ignores the nested entities, i.e. entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Xueru Wen , Changjiang Zhou , Haotian Tang , Luguang Liang , Yu Jiang , Hong Qi

Entity Matching (EM)--the task of determining whether two data records refer to the same real-world entity--is a core task in data integration. Recent advances in deep learning have set a new standard for EM, particularly through…

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