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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

Joint named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing for constructing knowledge graphs from unstructured text. While recent approaches treat NER and RE as separate tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ihor Stepanov , Oleksandr Lukashov , Mykhailo Shtopko , Vivek Kalyanarangan

Integrating named entity recognition (NER) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) can significantly enhance transcription accuracy and informativeness. In this paper, we introduce WhisperNER, a novel model that allows joint speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Gil Ayache , Menachem Pirchi , Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Gill Hetz , Joseph Keshet

Popular solutions to Named Entity Recognition (NER) include conditional random fields, sequence-to-sequence models, or utilizing the question-answering framework. However, they are not suitable for nested and overlapping spans with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey

Recently, it has attracted much attention to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems using limited annotated data. Nearly all existing works heavily rely on domain-specific resources, such as external lexicons and knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Houjin Yu , Xian-Ling Mao , Zewen Chi , Wei Wei , Heyan Huang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in large-scale texts into predefined classes. NER in French and other relatively limited-resource languages cannot always benefit from approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Arjun Choudhry , Inder Khatri , Pankaj Gupta , Aaryan Gupta , Maxime Nicol , Marie-Jean Meurs , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

One of the main tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), is Named Entity Recognition (NER). It is used in many applications and also can be used as an intermediate step for other tasks. We present ANER, a web-based named entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Abdelrahman "Boda" Sadallah , Omar Ahmed , Shimaa Mohamed , Omar Hatem , Doaa Hesham , Ahmed H. Yousef

Active learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing machine learning models in text and image classification tasks with limited annotation resources, has received relatively little attention in the domain of Named Entity Recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Haocheng Luo , Wei Tan , Ngoc Dang Nguyen , Lan Du

Existing multilingual embedding models often encounter challenges in cross-lingual scenarios due to imbalanced linguistic resources and less consideration of cross-lingual alignment during training. Although standardized contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Seungyoon Lee , Minhyuk Kim , Seongtae Hong , Youngjoon Jang , Dongsuk Oh , Heuiseok Lim

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in unstructured text. In the legal domain, named entities of interest may include the case parties, judges, names of courts, case numbers, references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Stavroula Skylaki , Ali Oskooei , Omar Bari , Nadja Herger , Zac Kriegman

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 well-studied task in natural language processing. Traditional NER research only deals with flat entities and ignores nested entities. The span-based methods treat entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Zeqi Tan , Shuai Zhang , Wen Wang , Weiming Lu

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

In this study, a novel method for extracting named entities and relations from unstructured text based on the table representation is presented. By using contextualized word embeddings, the proposed method computes representations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Youmi Ma , Tatsuya Hiraoka , Naoaki Okazaki

Named Entity Recognition (NER) serves as a fundamental task in natural language understanding, bearing direct implications for web content analysis, search engines, and information retrieval systems. Fine-tuned NER models exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhen Zhang , Yuhua Zhao , Hang Gao , Mengting Hu

Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is a burgeoning area, which involves updating an existing model by incorporating new entity types sequentially. Nevertheless, continual learning approaches are often severely afflicted by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Duzhen Zhang , Wei Cong , Jiahua Dong , Yahan Yu , Xiuyi Chen , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang

Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Current work in named entity recognition (NER) shows that data augmentation techniques can produce more robust models. However, most existing techniques focus on augmenting in-domain data in low-resource scenarios where annotated data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuguang Chen , Gustavo Aguilar , Leonardo Neves , Thamar Solorio

Large language models are powerful text processors and reasoners, but are still subject to limitations including outdated knowledge and hallucinations, which necessitates connecting them to the world. Retrieval-augmented large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhihong Shao , Yeyun Gong , Yelong Shen , Minlie Huang , Nan Duan , Weizhu Chen