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Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and classifying entities in sentences into pre-defined types. It plays a crucial role in various research fields, including entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dongsheng Wang , Xiaoqin Feng , Zeming Liu , Chuan Wang

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) targets generalizing to unseen labels and/or domains with few labeled examples. Existing metric learning methods compute token-level similarities between query and support sets, but are not able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yanru Chen , Yanan Zheng , Zhilin Yang

Cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER) aims to train an NER system that generalizes well to a target language by leveraging labeled data in a given source language. Previous work alleviates the data scarcity problem by translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tingting Ma , Qianhui Wu , Huiqiang Jiang , Börje F. Karlsson , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin

Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Pierre Lison , Aliaksandr Hubin , Jeremy Barnes , Samia Touileb

We present a bi-encoder framework for named entity recognition (NER), which applies contrastive learning to map candidate text spans and entity types into the same vector representation space. Prior work predominantly approaches NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Sheng Zhang , Hao Cheng , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon

StackOverflow, with its vast question repository and limited labeled examples, raise an annotation challenge for us. We address this gap by proposing RoBERTa+MAML, a few-shot named entity recognition (NER) method leveraging meta-learning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xinwei Chen , Kun Li , Tianyou Song , Jiangjian Guo

Multi-agent systems (MAS) leveraging the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant potential for tackling complex tasks. However, most current MAS depend on manually designed agent roles and communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zixuan Ke , Austin Xu , Yifei Ming , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Ryan Chin , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

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 impressive results of language models for named entity recognition (NER), their generalization to varied textual genres, a growing entity type set, and new entities remains a challenge. Collecting thousands of annotations in each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

Entity recognition is a fundamental task in understanding document images. Traditional sequence labeling frameworks treat the entity types as class IDs and rely on extensive data and high-quality annotations to learn semantics which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang

The objective of few-shot named entity recognition is to identify named entities with limited labeled instances. Previous works have primarily focused on optimizing the traditional token-wise classification framework, while neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Guanting Dong , Zechen Wang , Jinxu Zhao , Gang Zhao , Daichi Guo , Dayuan Fu , Tingfeng Hui , Chen Zeng , Keqing He , Xuefeng Li , Liwen Wang , Xinyue Cui , Weiran Xu

For several purposes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis or Chatbot, Named Entity Recognition (NER) holds an important role as it helps to determine and categorize entities in text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Thong Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Pramod Rao

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 (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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task that requires substantial annotated data, making it challenging in low-resource scenarios where label acquisition is expensive. While zero-shot and instruction-tuned approaches have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nanda Kumar Rengarajan , Jun Yan , Chun Wang

Named entity recognition (NER) identifies typed entity mentions in raw text. While the task is well-established, there is no universally used tagset: often, datasets are annotated for use in downstream applications and accordingly only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiao Huang , Li Dong , Elizabeth Boschee , Nanyun Peng

Detecting machine-generated text (MGT) from contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly crucial amid risks like disinformation and threats to academic integrity. Existing zero-shot detection paradigms, despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yue Wang , Liesheng Wei , Yuxiang Wang

We present a novel approach to named entity recognition (NER) in the presence of scarce data that we call example-based NER. Our train-free few-shot learning approach takes inspiration from question-answering to identify entity spans in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Morteza Ziyadi , Yuting Sun , Abhishek Goswami , Jade Huang , Weizhu Chen

Named-entity recognition (NER) in low-resource languages is usually tackled by finetuning very large multilingual LMs, an option that is often infeasible in memory- or latency-constrained settings. We ask whether small decoder LMs can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 David Demitri Africa , Suchir Salhan , Yuval Weiss , Paula Buttery , Richard Diehl Martinez

We introduce FewTopNER, a novel framework that integrates few-shot named entity recognition (NER) with topic-aware contextual modeling to address the challenges of cross-lingual and low-resource scenarios. FewTopNER leverages a shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ibrahim Bouabdallaoui , Fatima Guerouate , Samya Bouhaddour , Chaimae Saadi , Mohammed Sbihi