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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

Recently, considerable literature has grown up around the theme of few-shot named entity recognition (NER), but little published benchmark data specifically focused on the practical and challenging task. Current approaches collect existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Ning Ding , Guangwei Xu , Yulin Chen , Xiaobin Wang , Xu Han , Pengjun Xie , Hai-Tao Zheng , Zhiyuan Liu

Named entity recognition (NER) is widely used in natural language processing applications and downstream tasks. However, most NER tools target flat annotation from popular datasets, eschewing the semantic information available in nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Nicky Ringland , Xiang Dai , Ben Hachey , Sarvnaz Karimi , Cecile Paris , James R. Curran

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

End-to-end automatic speech recognition systems often fail to transcribe domain-specific named entities, causing catastrophic failures in downstream tasks. Numerous fast and lightweight named entity correction (NEC) models have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuanchang Luo , Daimeng Wei , Shaojun Li , Hengchao Shang , Jiaxin Guo , Zongyao Li , Zhanglin Wu , Xiaoyu Chen , Zhiqiang Rao , Jinlong Yang , Hao Yang

Background Medical and life science research generates millions of publications, and it is a great challenge for researchers to utilize this information in full since its scale and complexity greatly surpasses human reading capabilities.…

In this paper, we propose a new strategy for the task of named entity recognition (NER). We cast the task as a query-based machine reading comprehension task: e.g., the task of extracting entities with PER is formalized as answering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Zijun Sun , Jiwei Li

Speech Entity Linking aims to recognize and disambiguate named entities in spoken languages. Conventional methods suffer gravely from the unfettered speech styles and the noisy transcripts generated by ASR systems. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Shen Huang , Yuchen Zhai , Xinwei Long , Yong Jiang , Xiaobin Wang , Yin Zhang , Pengjun Xie

The increasing diversity of languages used on the web introduces a new level of complexity to Information Retrieval (IR) systems. We can no longer assume that textual content is written in one language or even the same language family. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Rami Al-Rfou , Vivek Kulkarni , Bryan Perozzi , Steven Skiena

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

Mining structured knowledge from tweets using named entity recognition (NER) can be beneficial for many down stream applications such as recommendation and intention understanding. With tweet posts tending to be multimodal, multimodal named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Peipei Liu , Hong Li , Yimo Ren , Jie Liu , Shuaizong Si , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

We conducted a human subject study of named entity recognition on a noisy corpus of conversational music recommendation queries, with many irregular and novel named entities. We evaluated the human NER linguistic behaviour in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

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

Recent advances in named entity recognition (NER) have pushed the boundary of the task to incorporate visual signals, leading to many variants, including multi-modal NER (MNER) or grounded MNER (GMNER). A key challenge to these tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hyunjong Ok , Taeho Kil , Sukmin Seo , Jaeho Lee

Named entity recognition (NER) is a foundational technology for information extraction. This paper presents a flexible NER framework compatible with different languages and domains. Inspired by the idea of distant supervision (DS), this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hongyin Zhu , Wenpeng Hu , Yi Zeng

In recent years, the fine-tuned generative models have been proven more powerful than the previous tagging-based or span-based models on named entity recognition (NER) task. It has also been found that the information related to entities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Guochao Jiang , Ziqin Luo , Yuchen Shi , Dixuan Wang , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang

Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

Interest in solving table interpretation tasks has grown over the years, yet it still relies on existing datasets that may be overly simplified. This is potentially reducing the effectiveness of the dataset for thorough evaluation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Ahmed Hatem , Thomas Runkler , Volker Tresp

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Entity Linking (EL) play an essential role in voice assistant interaction, but are challenging due to the special difficulties associated with spoken user queries. In this paper, we propose a novel…

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