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Named entity recognition (NER) is a foundational technology for information extraction. This paper presents a flexible NER framework compatible with different languages and domains. Inspired by the idea of distant supervision (DS), this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hongyin Zhu , Wenpeng Hu , Yi Zeng

Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) serves as the foundation for numerous biomedical text mining tasks. Unlike general NER, BNER require a comprehensive grasp of the domain, and incorporating external knowledge beyond training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junyi Bian , Rongze Jiang , Weiqi Zhai , Tianyang Huang , Hong Zhou , Shanfeng Zhu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities for generalizing in unseen tasks. In the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task, recent advancements have seen the remarkable improvement of LLMs in a broad range of entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuyang Ding , Juntao Li , Pinzheng Wang , Zecheng Tang , Bowen Yan , Min Zhang

Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) is a crucial task for information extraction from social media platforms such as Twitter. Most current methods rely on attention weights to extract information from both text and images but are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Weide Liu , Xiaoyang Zhong , Jingwen Hou , Shaohua Li , Haozhe Huang , Yuming Fang

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in numerous downstream applications. Recently, researchers have employed pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) to address this task. However, fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yufei Zhao , Xiaoshi Zhong , Erik Cambria , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in data annotation, opening the way for new approaches to solve classic NLP problems. In this paper, we show how to use LLMs to create NuNER, a compact language representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sergei Bogdanov , Alexandre Constantin , Timothée Bernard , Benoit Crabbé , Etienne Bernard

The dominant approaches for named entity recognition (NER) mostly adopt complex recurrent neural networks (RNN), e.g., long-short-term-memory (LSTM). However, RNNs are limited by their recurrent nature in terms of computational efficiency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Guiguang Ding , Jianguang Lou , Yusen Zhang , Borje Karlsson

This paper studies the multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) and multimodal relation extraction (MRE), which are important for multimedia social platform analysis. The core of MNER and MRE lies in incorporating evident visual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Shiyao Cui , Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Quangang Li , Tingwen Liu , Jinqiao Shi

The surge of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the extraction and analysis of crucial information from a growing volume of financial statements, announcements, and business news. Recognition for named entities to construct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yi-Te Lu , Yintong Huo

When performing named entity recognition (NER), entity length is variable and dependent on a specific domain or dataset. Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are used to solve NER tasks and tend to be biased toward dataset patterns such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang

Evaluating the alignment between textual prompts and generated images is critical for ensuring the reliability and usability of text-to-image (T2I) models. However, most existing evaluation methods rely on coarse-grained metrics or static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fulin Shi , Wenyi Xiao , Bin Chen , Liang Din , Leilei Gan

Answering questions that require reading texts in an image is challenging for current models. One key difficulty of this task is that rare, polysemous, and ambiguous words frequently appear in images, e.g., names of places, products, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Difei Gao , Ke Li , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

This paper investigates the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) for extreme low-resource languages with only a few hundred tagged data samples. NER is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). A critical driver…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shashank Sonkar , Zichao Wang , Richard G. Baraniuk

The state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) systems are statistical machine learning models that have strong generalization capability (i.e., can recognize unseen entities that do not appear in training data) based on lexical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jian Ni , Radu Florian

The emergence of multimodal content, particularly text and images on social media, has positioned Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) as an increasingly important area of research within Natural Language Processing. Despite progress…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hussain Ahmad , Qingyang Zeng , Jing Wan

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) stands out as a pivotal mechanism for extracting structured insights from unstructured text. This manuscript offers an exhaustive exploration into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kalyani Pakhale

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical component of Natural Language Processing with diverse applications in information extraction and conversational AI. However, NER in specific domains for low-resource languages faces challenges…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Do Minh Duc , Quan Xuan Truong , Viet Tran Hong , Le Hoang Anh , Mac Thi Minh Tra , Nguyen Van Thuy , Le Hai Ha , Vinh Nguyen Van

We introduce a new task called Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) for noisy user-generated data such as tweets or Snapchat captions, which comprise short text with accompanying images. These social media posts often come in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Seungwhan Moon , Leonardo Neves , Vitor Carvalho

Multi-modal named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) aim to leverage relevant image information to improve the performance of NER and RE. Most existing efforts largely focused on directly extracting potentially useful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xinyu Wang , Jiong Cai , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu , Wei Lu

This paper presents ReverseNER, a method aimed at overcoming the limitation of large language models (LLMs) in zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) tasks, arising from their reliance on pre-provided demonstrations. ReverseNER tackles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Anbang Wang , Difei Mei , Zhichao Zhang , Xiuxiu Bai , Ran Yao , Zewen Fang , Min Hu , Zhirui Cao , Haitao Sun , Yifeng Guo , Hongyao Zhou , Yu Guo