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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

Neural networks (NNs) have become the state of the art in many machine learning applications, especially in image and sound processing [1]. The same, although to a lesser extent [2,3], could be said in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Luka Gligic , Andrey Kormilitzin , Paul Goldberg , Alejo Nevado-Holgado

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, current losses for medical image segmentation mainly focus on overall segmentation results, with fewer losses proposed to guide boundary segmentation. Those that do…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Fan Sun , Zhiming Luo , Shaozi Li

State-of-the-art studies have demonstrated the superiority of joint modelling over pipeline implementation for medical named entity recognition and normalization due to the mutual benefits between the two processes. To exploit these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Sendong Zhao , Ting Liu , Sicheng Zhao , Fei Wang

Unlike widely used Named Entity Recognition (NER) data sets in generic domains, biomedical NER data sets often contain mentions consisting of discontinuous spans. Conventional sequence tagging techniques encode Markov assumptions that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Ben Hachey , Cecile Paris

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

Information extraction techniques, including named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE), are crucial in many domains to support making sense of vast amounts of unstructured text data by identifying and connecting relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mingjie Li , Karin Verspoor

This paper presents a comprehensive study to efficiently build named entity recognition (NER) systems when a small number of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon recent Transformer-based self-supervised pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiaxin Huang , Chunyuan Li , Krishan Subudhi , Damien Jose , Shobana Balakrishnan , Weizhu Chen , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Jiawei Han

This study is dedicated to exploring the application of prompt learning methods to advance Named Entity Recognition (NER) within the medical domain. In recent years, the emergence of large-scale models has driven significant progress in NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jinzhu Yang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown transformative potential in medical applications, yet their performance is hindered by conventional data curation strategies that rely on coarse-grained partitioning by modality or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jianghang Lin , Haihua Yang , Deli Yu , Kai Wu , Kai Ye , Jinghao Lin , Zihan Wang , Yuhang Wu , Liujuan Cao

Usually considered as a classification problem, entity resolution (ER) can be very challenging on real data due to the prevalence of dirty values. The state-of-the-art solutions for ER were built on a variety of learning models (most…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Boyi Hou , Qun Chen , Yanyan Wang , Youcef Nafa , Zhanhuai Li

Named-entity recognition (NER) is a task that typically requires large annotated datasets, which limits its applicability across domains with varying entity definitions. This paper addresses few-shot NER, aiming to transfer knowledge to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ayoub Hammal , Benno Uthayasooriyar , Caio Corro

Four-variable-independent-regression localization losses, such as Smooth-$\ell_1$ Loss, are used by default in modern detectors. Nevertheless, this kind of loss is oversimplified so that it is inconsistent with the final evaluation metric,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Hanyang Peng , Shiqi Yu

Popular solutions to Named Entity Recognition (NER) include conditional random fields, sequence-to-sequence models, or utilizing the question-answering framework. However, they are not suitable for nested and overlapping spans with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey

While nowadays deep neural networks achieve impressive performances on semantic segmentation tasks, they are usually trained by optimizing pixel-wise losses such as cross-entropy. As a result, the predictions outputted by such networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yifu Chen , Arnaud Dapogny , Matthieu Cord

Entity Matching (EM) is a core data cleaning task, aiming to identify different mentions of the same real-world entity. Active learning is one way to address the challenge of scarce labeled data in practice, by dynamically collecting the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri , Lucian Popa , Prithviraj Sen , Mohamed Sarwat

With increasing applications of semantic segmentation, numerous datasets have been proposed in the past few years. Yet labeling remains expensive, thus, it is desirable to jointly train models across aggregations of datasets to enhance data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Dongwan Kim , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Yumin Suh , Masoud Faraki , Sparsh Garg , Manmohan Chandraker , Bohyung Han

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) strongly depend on annotated corpora, but the utility of these resources for benchmarking is often assumed rather than characterized. We present a corpus-centric framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Robert Leaman , Rezarta Islamaj , Zhiyong Lu

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

Recent pre-trained transformer models achieve superior performance in various code processing objectives. However, although effective at optimizing decision boundaries, common approaches for fine-tuning them for downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Adelaide Danilov , Aria Nourbakhsh , Christoph Schommer