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Named entity recognition (NER) is a vital task in spoken language understanding, which aims to identify mentions of named entities in text e.g., from transcribed speech. Existing neural models for NER rely mostly on dedicated word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Abdalghani Abujabal , Judith Gaspers

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in domains like e-commerce is an understudied problem due to the lack of annotated datasets. Recognizing novel entity types in this domain, such as products, components, and attributes, is challenging because…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Hanchu Zhang , Leonhard Hennig , Christoph Alt , Changjian Hu , Yao Meng , Chao Wang

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

Deep learning has yielded state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks including named entity recognition (NER). However, this typically requires large amounts of labeled data. In this work, we demonstrate that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yanyao Shen , Hyokun Yun , Zachary C. Lipton , Yakov Kronrod , Animashree Anandkumar

Named entity recognition (NER) identifies typed entity mentions in raw text. While the task is well-established, there is no universally used tagset: often, datasets are annotated for use in downstream applications and accordingly only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiao Huang , Li Dong , Elizabeth Boschee , Nanyun Peng

With the development of large language models (LLMs), zero-shot learning has attracted much attention for various NLP tasks. Different from prior works that generate training data with billion-scale natural language generation (NLG) models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yue Yu , Yuchen Zhuang , Rongzhi Zhang , Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Chao Zhang

The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have brought significant progress in NLP tasks. However, if a task cannot be fully described in prompts, the models could fail to carry out the task. In this paper, we propose a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hwiyeol Jo , Hyunwoo Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Taiwoo Park

We study the problem of training named entity recognition (NER) models using only distantly-labeled data, which can be automatically obtained by matching entity mentions in the raw text with entity types in a knowledge base. The biggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Large Language Models (LLMs) have provided a new pathway for Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. Compared with fine-tuning, LLM-powered prompting methods avoid the need for training, conserve substantial computational resources, and rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yongjian Tang , Rakebul Hasan , Thomas Runkler

In-Context Learning (ICL) technique based on Large Language Models (LLMs) has gained prominence in Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks for its lower computing resource consumption, less manual labeling overhead, and stronger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuzhen Xiao , Jiahe Song , Yongxin Xu , Ruizhe Zhang , Yiqi Xiao , Xin Lu , Runchuan Zhu , Bowen Jiang , Junfeng Zhao

Information extraction tasks require both accurate, efficient, and generalisable models. Classical supervised deep learning approaches can achieve the required performance, but they need large datasets and are limited in their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ihor Stepanov , Mykhailo Shtopko

We propose a neural reranking system for named entity recognition (NER). The basic idea is to leverage recurrent neural network models to learn sentence-level patterns that involve named entity mentions. In particular, given an output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Jie Yang , Yue Zhang , Fei Dong

The CoNLL-03 corpus is arguably the most well-known and utilized benchmark dataset for named entity recognition (NER). However, prior works found significant numbers of annotation errors, incompleteness, and inconsistencies in the data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Susanna Rücker , Alan Akbik

Few-Shot Cross-Domain NER is the process of leveraging knowledge from data-rich source domains to perform entity recognition on data scarce target domains. Most previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches use pre-trained language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Subhadip Nandi , Neeraj Agrawal

Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kosuke Nishida , Naoki Yoshinaga , Kyosuke Nishida

Language model (LM) pretraining has led to consistent improvements in many NLP downstream tasks, including named entity recognition (NER). In this paper, we present T-NER (Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition), a Python library for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) has shown remarkable progress in identifying entities in low-resource domains. However, few-shot NER methods still struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) examples due to their reliance on manual labeling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zihan Wang , Ziqi Zhao , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Character-level patterns have been widely used as features in English Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems. However, to date there has been no direct investigation of the inherent differences between name and non-name tokens in text, nor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Xiaodong Yu , Stephen Mayhew , Mark Sammons , Dan Roth

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the rare disease domain poses unique challenges due to limited labeled data, semantic ambiguity between entity types, and long-tail distributions. In this study, we evaluate the capabilities of GPT-4o for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nan Miles Xi , Yu Deng , Lin Wang

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