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In a surprising turn, Large Language Models (LLMs) together with a growing arsenal of prompt-based heuristics now offer powerful off-the-shelf approaches providing few-shot solutions to myriad classic NLP problems. However, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Dhananjay Ashok , Zachary C. Lipton

Named Entity Recognition(NER) is a task of recognizing entities at a token level in a sentence. This paper focuses on solving NER tasks in a multilingual setting for complex named entities. Our team, LLM-RM participated in the recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Rahul Mehta , Vasudeva Varma

Named entity recognition (NER) is the process of recognising and classifying important information (entities) in text. Proper nouns, such as a person's name, an organization's name, or a location's name, are examples of entities. The NER is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Onkar Litake , Maithili Sabane , Parth Patil , Aparna Ranade , Raviraj Joshi

Supervised machine learning assumes the availability of fully-labeled data, but in many cases, such as low-resource languages, the only data available is partially annotated. We study the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Stephen Mayhew , Snigdha Chaturvedi , Chen-Tse Tsai , Dan Roth

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). LLMs require an extreme amount of parameters to attain high performance. As models grow into the trillion-parameter range,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhyar Rzgar K Rostam , Sándor Szénási , Gábor Kertész

We present several neural networks to address the task of named entity recognition for morphologically complex languages (MCL). Kazakh is a morphologically complex language in which each root/stem can produce hundreds or thousands of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Gulmira Tolegen , Alymzhan Toleu , Orken Mamyrbayev , Rustam Mussabayev

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks through in-context learning but often under-perform in Named Entity Recognition (NER), especially for lower-resource languages like Portuguese. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 João Lucas Luz Lima Sarcinelli , Diego Furtado Silva

In the past five years, research has shifted from traditional Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) approaches to leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) , including multimodality, for data augmentation to enhance generalization, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ranjan Sapkota , Shaina Raza , Maged Shoman , Achyut Paudel , Manoj Karkee

In low resource settings, data augmentation strategies are commonly leveraged to improve performance. Numerous approaches have attempted document-level augmentation (e.g., text classification), but few studies have explored token-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Arie Pratama Sutiono , Gus Hahn-Powell

This paper addresses the challenge of Database Entity Recognition (DB-ER) in Natural Language Queries (NLQ). We present several key contributions to advance this field: (1) a human-annotated benchmark for DB-ER task, derived from popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zikun Fu , Chen Yang , Kourosh Davoudi , Ken Q. Pu

This paper explores the enhancement of small language models through strategic dataset augmentation via ChatGPT-3.5-Turbo, in the domain of Natural Language Inference (NLI). By employing knowledge distillation-based techniques and synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Tom Pieper , Mohamad Ballout , Ulf Krumnack , Gunther Heidemann , Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Natural language processing (NLP) applications such as named entity recognition (NER) for low-resource corpora do not benefit from recent advances in the development of large language models (LLMs) where there is still a need for larger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jamil Zaghir , Mina Bjelogrlic , Jean-Philippe Goldman , Soukaïna Aananou , Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac , Christian Lovis

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…

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The growing spread of misinformation in digital media highlights the need for reliable fake news detection systems, yet progress in under-resourced languages such as Bangla is limited by small and imbalanced datasets. This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ahmed Alfey Sani , Kazi Akib Zaoad , Shefayat E Shams Adib , Md Abdul Muqtadir , Ajwad Abrar

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated dominating performance in many NLP tasks, especially on generative tasks. However, they often fall short in some information extraction tasks, particularly those requiring domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junyi Bian , Jiaxuan Zheng , Yuyi Zhang , Shanfeng Zhu

Named entity recognition (NER) is frequently addressed as a sequence classification task where each input consists of one sentence of text. It is nevertheless clear that useful information for the task can often be found outside of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jouni Luoma , Sampo Pyysalo

Automatic speech recognition for low-resource languages remains fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of labeled data and computational resources required by state-of-the-art models. We present a systematic investigation into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Srihari Bandarupalli , Bhavana Akkiraju , Charan Devarakonda , Vamsiraghusimha Narsinga , Anil Kumar Vuppala

Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Alankar Jain , Bhargavi Paranjape , Zachary C. Lipton

Spoken named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify named entities from speech, playing an important role in speech processing. New named entities appear every day, however, annotating their Spoken NER data is costly. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiawei Yu , Xiang Geng , Yuang Li , Mengxin Ren , Wei Tang , Jiahuan Li , Zhibin Lan , Min Zhang , Hao Yang , Shujian Huang , Jinsong Su

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in a single language has achieved remarkable results through deep learning approaches in the last decade. However, cross-lingual SER remains a challenge in real-world applications due to a great difference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Jin Li , Nan Yan , Lan Wang