English
Related papers

Related papers: NERCat: Fine-Tuning for Enhanced Named Entity Reco…

200 papers

Named Entity Recognition for social media data is challenging because of its inherent noisiness. In addition to improper grammatical structures, it contains spelling inconsistencies and numerous informal abbreviations. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , Suraj Maharjan , Adrian Pastor López-Monroy , Thamar Solorio

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) are essential tools in distilling knowledge from biomedical literature. This paper presents our findings from participating in BioNLP Shared Tasks 2019. We addressed Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Usama Yaseen , Pankaj Gupta , Hinrich Schütze

Complex Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of detecting linguistically complex named entities in low-context text. In this paper, we present ACLM Attention-map aware keyword selection for Conditional Language Model fine-tuning), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , Manan Suri , Sonal Kumar , S Ramaneswaran , Dinesh Manocha

Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) systems have recently been widely researched to deal with the significant growth of the Web. NERD systems are crucial for several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sandro A. Coelho , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo C. Publio , Diego Esteves

Named entity discovery (NED) is an important information retrieval problem that can be decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem, named entity recognition (NER), aims to tag pre-defined sets of words in a vocabulary (called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Sammy Khalife , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Fine-Grained Named Entity Typing (FG-NET) is a key component in Natural Language Processing (NLP). It aims at classifying an entity mention into a wide range of entity types. Due to a large number of entity types, distant supervision is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Muhammad Asif Ali , Yifang Sun , Bing Li , Wei Wang

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

This technique report introduces TexSmart, a text understanding system that supports fine-grained named entity recognition (NER) and enhanced semantic analysis functionalities. Compared to most previous publicly available text understanding…

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental part of extracting information from documents in biomedical applications. A notable advantage of NER is its consistency in extracting biomedical entities in a document context. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a sub-task of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that distinguishes entities from unorganized text into predefined categorization. In recent years, a lot of Bangla NLP subtasks have received quite a lot of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Niloy Farhan , Saman Sarker Joy , Tafseer Binte Mannan , Farig Sadeque

A large amount of information in today's world is now stored in knowledge bases. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a process of extracting, disambiguation, and linking an entity from raw text to insightful and structured knowledge bases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Monica Munnangi

Developing Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems for Indian languages has been a long-standing challenge, mainly owing to the requirement of a large amount of annotated clean training instances. This paper proposes an end-to-end framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Akshara Prabhakar , Gouri Sankar Majumder , Ashish Anand

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging task that extracts named entities from unstructured text data, including news, articles, social comments, etc. The NER system has been studied for decades. Recently, the development of Deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jiuniu Wang , Wenjia Xu , Xingyu Fu , Guangluan Xu , Yirong Wu

This paper reports on the evaluation of Deep Learning (DL) transformer architecture models for Named-Entity Recognition (NER) on ten low-resourced South African (SA) languages. In addition, these DL transformer models were compared to other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ridewaan Hanslo

In recent years, great success has been achieved in many tasks of natural language processing (NLP), e.g., named entity recognition (NER), especially in the high-resource language, i.e., English, thanks in part to the considerable amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Shengfei Lyu , Linghao Sun , Huixiong Yi , Yong Liu , Huanhuan Chen , Chunyan Miao

Named entity recognition (NER) for identifying proper nouns in unstructured text is one of the most important and fundamental tasks in natural language processing. However, despite the widespread use of NER models, they still require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Zhifeng Hao , Di Lv , Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Wen Wen , Boyan Xu

Named entity recognition (NER) is evolving from a sequence labeling task into a generative paradigm with the rise of large language models (LLMs). We conduct a systematic evaluation of open-source LLMs on both flat and nested NER tasks. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qi Zhan , Yile Wang , Hui Huang

Pre-trained models such as BERT are widely used in NLP tasks and are fine-tuned to improve the performance of various NLP tasks consistently. Nevertheless, the fine-tuned BERT model trained on our protocol corpus still has a weak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Shoubin Li , Wenzao Cui , Yujiang Liu , Xuran Ming , Jun Hu , YuanzheHu , Qing Wang

As a fundamental natural language processing task and one of core knowledge extraction techniques, named entity recognition (NER) is widely used to extract information from texts for downstream tasks. Nested NER is a branch of NER in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifei Yang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao