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We propose Neural Entity Reasoner (NE-Reasoner), a framework to introduce global consistency of recognized entities into Neural Reasoner over Named Entity Recognition (NER) task. Given an input sentence, the NE-Reasoner layer can infer over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Xiaoxiao Yin , Daqi Zheng , Zhengdong Lu , Ruifang Liu

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

The use of LLMs for natural language processing has become a popular trend in the past two years, driven by their formidable capacity for context comprehension and learning, which has inspired a wave of research from academics and industry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Faren Yan , Peng Yu , Xin Chen

Pre-trained Programming Language Models (PPLMs) achieved many recent states of the art results for many code-related software engineering tasks. Though some studies use data flow or propose tree-based models that utilize Abstract Syntax…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Iman Saberi , Fatemeh H. Fard

In a surprising turn, Large Language Models (LLMs) together with a growing arsenal of prompt-based heuristics now offer powerful off-the-shelf approaches providing few-shot solutions to myriad classic NLP problems. However, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Dhananjay Ashok , Zachary C. Lipton

Named-entity recognition (NER) detects texts with predefined semantic labels and is an essential building block for natural language processing (NLP). Notably, recent NER research focuses on utilizing massive extra data, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuxiang Zhang , Junjie Wang , Xinyu Zhu , Tetsuya Sakai , Hayato Yamana

Deep neural models for named entity recognition (NER) have shown impressive results in overcoming label scarcity and generalizing to unseen entities by leveraging distant supervision and auxiliary information such as explanations. However,…

Background: Machine learning methods for clinical named entity recognition and entity normalization systems can utilize both labeled corpora and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) for learning. However, infrequently occurring concepts may have few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Kuleen Sasse , Shinjitha Vadlakonda , Richard E. Kennedy , John D. Osborne

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an essential precursor task for many natural language applications, such as relation extraction or event extraction. Much of the NER research has been done on datasets with few classes of entity types (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Parul Awasthy , Taesun Moon , Jian Ni , Radu Florian

Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) has emerged as a cheap and convenient alternative to traditional human annotation methods, enabling the automatic generation of training data by aligning text with external resources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuyang Ding , Dan Qiao , Juntao Li , Jiajie Xu , Pingfu Chao , Xiaofang Zhou , Min Zhang

Pretrained using large amount of data, autoregressive language models are able to generate high quality sequences. However, these models do not perform well under hard lexical constraints as they lack fine control of content generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Lee-Hsun Hsieh , Yang-Yin Lee , Ee-Peng Lim

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task that requires substantial annotated data, making it challenging in low-resource scenarios where label acquisition is expensive. While zero-shot and instruction-tuned approaches have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nanda Kumar Rengarajan , Jun Yan , Chun Wang

Multi-table entity matching (MEM) addresses the limitations of dual-table approaches by enabling simultaneous identification of equivalent entities across multiple data sources without unique identifiers. However, existing methods relying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yingkai Tang , Taoyu Su , Wenyuan Zhang , Xiaoyang Guo , Tingwen Liu

Compared with English, Chinese suffers from more grammatical ambiguities, like fuzzy word boundaries and polysemous words. In this case, contextual information is not sufficient to support Chinese named entity recognition (NER), especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Qinghua Mao , Jiatong Li , Kui Meng

Compared to hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a modular architecture in which each component can be independently adapted to a new domain, recent end-to-end (E2E) ASR system are harder to customize due to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Samuel Thomas , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo

Training a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model often involves fixing a taxonomy of entity types. However, requirements evolve and we might need the NER model to recognize additional entity types. A simple approach is to re-annotate entire…

Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition (DS-NER) has attracted attention due to its scalability and ability to automatically generate labeled data. However, distant annotation introduces many mislabeled instances, limiting its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Qi Zhang , Huitong Pan , Zhijia Chen , Longin Jan Latecki , Cornelia Caragea , Eduard Dragut

Entity resolution, which involves identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity, is a crucial task in areas like Web data integration. This importance is underscored by the presence of numerous duplicated and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Huahang Li , Shuangyin Li , Fei Hao , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song , Lei Chen

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important component of many natural language processing systems, such as relation extraction and knowledge graph construction. In this work, we present a simple and effective approach for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Urchade Zaratiana , Pierre Holat , Nadi Tomeh , Thierry Charnois