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Lately, instruction-based techniques have made significant strides in improving performance in few-shot learning scenarios. They achieve this by bridging the gap between pre-trained language models and fine-tuning for specific downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hiranmai Sri Adibhatla , Pavan Baswani , Manish Shrivastava

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This paper aims to quantify how this diversity impacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Isabelle Augenstein , Leon Derczynski , Kalina Bontcheva

In the rapidly evolving field of healthcare and beyond, the integration of generative AI in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) represents a pivotal advancement, addressing a critical gap in current information extraction techniques. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Mohammed-Khalil Ghali , Abdelrahman Farrag , Hajar Sakai , Hicham El Baz , Yu Jin , Sarah Lam

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

There are a few challenges related to the task of biomedical named entity recognition, which are: the existing methods consider a fewer number of biomedical entities (e.g., disease, symptom, proteins, genes); and these methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shaina Raza , Brian Schwartz

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to develop entity recognition systems from unannotated text corpora. This task presents substantial challenges due to minimal human intervention. Recent work has adapted large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zihan Wang , Ziqi Zhao , Yougang Lyu , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

We present a simple few-shot named entity recognition (NER) system based on nearest neighbor learning and structured inference. Our system uses a supervised NER model trained on the source domain, as a feature extractor. Across several test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yi Yang , Arzoo Katiyar

Despite the fact that large-scale Language Models (LLM) have achieved SOTA performances on a variety of NLP tasks, its performance on NER is still significantly below supervised baselines. This is due to the gap between the two tasks the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuhe Wang , Xiaofei Sun , Xiaoya Li , Rongbin Ouyang , Fei Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Guoyin Wang

Named entity recognition (NER) is a critical step in modern search query understanding. In the domain of eCommerce, identifying the key entities, such as brand and product type, can help a search engine retrieve relevant products and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiang Cheng , Mitchell Bowden , Bhushan Ramesh Bhange , Priyanka Goyal , Thomas Packer , Faizan Javed

Open Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying arbitrary types of entities from arbitrary domains, remains challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies suggest that fine-tuning LLMs on extensive NER data can…

Named Entity Recognition (NER) serves as a foundational component in many natural language processing (NLP) pipelines. However, current NER models typically output a single predicted label sequence without any accompanying measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Matthew Singer , Srijan Sengupta , Karl Pazdernik

Named entity recognition (NER) is an important research problem in natural language processing. There are three types of NER tasks, including flat, nested and discontinuous entity recognition. Most previous sequential labeling models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ying Mo , Hongyin Tang , Jiahao Liu , Qifan Wang , Zenglin Xu , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Zhoujun Li

The task of named entity recognition (NER) is normally divided into nested NER and flat NER depending on whether named entities are nested or not. Models are usually separately developed for the two tasks, since sequence labeling models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoya Li , Jingrong Feng , Yuxian Meng , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (CL-NER) aims to transfer knowledge from high-resource languages to low-resource languages. However, existing zero-shot CL-NER (ZCL-NER) approaches primarily focus on Latin script language (LSL), where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhihao Zhang , Sophia Yat Mei Lee , Dong Zhang , Shoushan Li , Guodong Zhou

This survey presents a comprehensive description of recent neural entity linking (EL) systems developed since 2015 as a result of the "deep learning revolution" in natural language processing. Its goal is to systemize design features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ozge Sevgili , Artem Shelmanov , Mikhail Arkhipov , Alexander Panchenko , Chris Biemann

Named entity discovery (NED) is an important information retrieval problem that can be decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem, named entity recognition (NER), aims to tag pre-defined sets of words in a vocabulary (called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Sammy Khalife , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Spoken named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify named entities from speech, playing an important role in speech processing. New named entities appear every day, however, annotating their Spoken NER data is costly. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiawei Yu , Xiang Geng , Yuang Li , Mengxin Ren , Wei Tang , Jiahuan Li , Zhibin Lan , Min Zhang , Hao Yang , Shujian Huang , Jinsong Su

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

Clinical concept extraction often begins with clinical Named Entity Recognition (NER). Often trained on annotated clinical notes, clinical NER models tend to struggle with tagging clinical entities in user queries because of the structural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Yue Zhao , John Handley

As a fundamental natural language processing task and one of core knowledge extraction techniques, named entity recognition (NER) is widely used to extract information from texts for downstream tasks. Nested NER is a branch of NER in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifei Yang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao