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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical component of Natural Language Processing with diverse applications in information extraction and conversational AI. However, NER in specific domains for low-resource languages faces challenges…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Do Minh Duc , Quan Xuan Truong , Viet Tran Hong , Le Hoang Anh , Mac Thi Minh Tra , Nguyen Van Thuy , Le Hai Ha , Vinh Nguyen Van

In this paper, we propose DiffusionNER, which formulates the named entity recognition task as a boundary-denoising diffusion process and thus generates named entities from noisy spans. During training, DiffusionNER gradually adds noises to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yongliang Shen , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Dongsheng Li , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Chinese named entity recognition (CNER) is an important task in Chinese natural language processing field. However, CNER is very challenging since Chinese entity names are highly context-dependent. In addition, Chinese texts lack delimiters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Fangzhao Wu , Junxin Liu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

For languages with no annotated resources, transferring knowledge from rich-resource languages is an effective solution for named entity recognition (NER). While all existing methods directly transfer from source-learned model to a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Guoxin Wang , Hui Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin-Yew Lin

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 fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and classifying named entities in text. But much work hasn't been done for complex named entity recognition in Bangla, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 HAZ Sameen Shahgir , Ramisa Alam , Md. Zarif Ul Alam

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

In knowledge graph construction, a challenging issue is how to extract complex (e.g., overlapping) entities and relationships from a small amount of unstructured historical data. The traditional pipeline methods are to divide the extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jian Cheng , Tian Zhang , Shuang Zhang , Huimin Ren , Guo Yu , Xiliang Zhang , Shangce Gao , Lianbo Ma

To audit the robustness of named entity recognition (NER) models, we propose RockNER, a simple yet effective method to create natural adversarial examples. Specifically, at the entity level, we replace target entities with other entities of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bill Yuchen Lin , Wenyang Gao , Jun Yan , Ryan Moreno , Xiang Ren

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to recognize novel named entities in low-resource domains utilizing existing knowledge. However, the present few-shot NER models assume that the labeled data are all clean without noise or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xiaojun Xue , Chunxia Zhang , Tianxiang Xu , Zhendong Niu

This paper presents ReverseNER, a method aimed at overcoming the limitation of large language models (LLMs) in zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) tasks, arising from their reliance on pre-provided demonstrations. ReverseNER tackles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Anbang Wang , Difei Mei , Zhichao Zhang , Xiuxiu Bai , Ran Yao , Zewen Fang , Min Hu , Zhirui Cao , Haitao Sun , Yifeng Guo , Hongyao Zhou , Yu Guo

Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) has been proposed to exploit the automatically labeled training data instead of human annotations. The distantly annotated datasets are often noisy and contain a considerable number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Lu Xu , Lidong Bing , Wei Lu

Several `edge-discovery' applications over graph-based data models are known to have worst-case quadratic time complexity in the nodes, even if the discovered edges are sparse. One example is the generic link discovery problem between two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Mayank Kejriwal

Named entity recognition is a traditional task in natural language processing. In particular, nested entity recognition receives extensive attention for the widespread existence of the nesting scenario. The latest research migrates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xueru Wen , Changjiang Zhou , Haotian Tang , Luguang Liang , Yu Jiang , Hong Qi

In this work, we propose a two-stage method for named entity recognition (NER), especially for nested NER. We borrowed the idea from the two-stage Object Detection in computer vision and the way how they construct the loss function. First,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Bing Li

In recent years, models based on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have made significant strides in the field of graph data analysis. However, challenges such as over-smoothing and over-compression remain when handling large-scale and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Binxiong Li , Xu Xiang , Xue Li , Binyu Zhao , Heyang Gao , Qinyu Zhao

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) identifies named entities, including their spans and types, in natural language text and grounds them to the corresponding regions in associated images. Most existing approaches split…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Hongbing Li , Jiamin Liu , Shuo Zhang , Bo Xiao

Tagging based relational triple extraction methods are attracting growing research attention recently. However, most of these methods take a unidirectional extraction framework that first extracts all subjects and then extracts objects and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Feiliang Ren , Longhui Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhao , Shujuan Yin , Shilei Liu , Bochao Li

The Bidirectional long short-term memory networks (BiLSTM) have been widely used as an encoder in models solving the named entity recognition (NER) task. Recently, the Transformer is broadly adopted in various Natural Language Processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Hang Yan , Bocao Deng , Xiaonan Li , Xipeng Qiu

Identifying the same individual across different scenes is an important yet difficult task in intelligent video surveillance. Its main difficulty lies in how to preserve similarity of the same person against large appearance and structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Shengyong Ding , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang , Hongyang Chao