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Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) enables us to build a NER system for a new domain using very few labeled examples. However, existing prototypical networks for this task suffer from roughly estimated label dependency and closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Bin Ji , Shasha Li , Shaoduo Gan , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Huijun Liu

Recently, prompt-based methods have achieved significant performance in few-shot learning scenarios by bridging the gap between language model pre-training and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. However, existing prompt templates are mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Liwen Wang , Rumei Li , Yang Yan , Yuanmeng Yan , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu

Prompt-based language models have produced encouraging results in numerous applications, including Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. NER aims to identify entities in a sentence and provide their types. However, the strong performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Amirhossein Layegh , Amir H. Payberah , Ahmet Soylu , Dumitru Roman , Mihhail Matskin

Named Entity Recognition (NER) frequently suffers from the problem of insufficient labeled data, particularly in fine-grained NER scenarios. Although $K$-shot learning techniques can be applied, their performance tends to saturate when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Su Ah Lee , Seokjin Oh , Woohwan Jung

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

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

In this work, we study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) in a low resource scenario, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot settings. Built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, we propose a novel NER framework, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yaqing Wang , Haoda Chu , Chao Zhang , Jing Gao

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) is a high-utility natural language processing (NLP) task, and large language models (LLMs) show promise particularly in few-shot settings (i.e., limited training data). In this article, we address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yao Ge , Sudeshna Das , Yuting Guo , Abeed Sarker

We study the problem of few shot learning for named entity recognition. Specifically, we leverage the semantic information in the names of the labels as a way of giving the model additional signal and enriched priors. We propose a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jie Ma , Miguel Ballesteros , Srikanth Doss , Rishita Anubhai , Sunil Mallya , Yaser Al-Onaizan , Dan Roth

Most state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) rely on the availability of large amounts of labeled data, making them challenging to extend to new, lower-resourced languages. However, there are now several proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Aditi Chaudhary , Jiateng Xie , Zaid Sheikh , Graham Neubig , Jaime G. Carbonell

In nested Named entity recognition (NER), entities are nested with each other, and thus requiring more data annotations to address. This leads to the development of few-shot nested NER, where the prevalence of pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Meishan Zhang , Bin Wang , Hao Fei , Min Zhang

Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations). In this survey, we first present an overview of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Imed Keraghel , Stanislas Morbieu , Mohamed Nadif

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Few-Shot setting is imperative for entity tagging in low resource domains. Existing approaches only learn class-specific semantic features and intermediate representations from source domains. This affects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Arzoo Katiyar , Rebecca J. Passonneau , Rui Zhang

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

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

Supervised named entity recognition (NER) in the biomedical domain depends on large sets of annotated texts with the given named entities. The creation of such datasets can be time-consuming and expensive, while extraction of new entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miloš Košprdić , Nikola Prodanović , Adela Ljajić , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević

Prompt learning is a new paradigm for utilizing pre-trained language models and has achieved great success in many tasks. To adopt prompt learning in the NER task, two kinds of methods have been explored from a pair of symmetric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Shuhui Wu , Wenqi Zhang , Rongsheng Zhang , Yadong Xi , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) exploits limited annotated instances to identify named mentions. Effectively transferring the internal or external resources thus becomes the key to few-shot NER. While the existing prompt tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiang Liu , Hao Fei , Fei Li , Jingye Li , Bobo Li , Liang Zhao , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have shown remarkable few-shot learning capabilities when provided with properly formatted examples. However, selecting the "best" examples remains an open challenge. We propose a complexity-based prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Rishabh Adiga , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian , Varun Chandrasekaran