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Named Entity Recognition (NER) from social media posts is a challenging task. User generated content that forms the nature of social media, is noisy and contains grammatical and linguistic errors. This noisy content makes it much harder for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu , M. Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Leili Farzinvash , M. A. Balafar , Cina Motamed

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) is a nascent multimodal task that aims to identify named entities, entity types and their corresponding visual regions. GMNER task exhibits two challenging properties: 1) The weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jinyuan Li , Han Li , Di Sun , Jiahao Wang , Wenkun Zhang , Zan Wang , Gang Pan

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves

We propose an efficient modeling framework for cross-lingual named entity recognition in semi-structured text data. Our approach relies on both knowledge distillation and consistency training. The modeling framework leverages knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sunisth Kumar , Davide Liu , Alexandre Boulenger

One of the main tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), is Named Entity Recognition (NER). It is used in many applications and also can be used as an intermediate step for other tasks. We present ANER, a web-based named entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Abdelrahman "Boda" Sadallah , Omar Ahmed , Shimaa Mohamed , Omar Hatem , Doaa Hesham , Ahmed H. Yousef

The paper introduces the UniMER dataset, marking the first study on Mathematical Expression Recognition (MER) targeting complex real-world scenarios. The UniMER dataset includes a large-scale training set, UniMER-1M, which offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bin Wang , Zhuangcheng Gu , Guang Liang , Chao Xu , Bo Zhang , Botian Shi , Conghui He

Misinformation on social media is a widely acknowledged issue, and researchers worldwide are actively engaged in its detection. However, low-resource languages such as Urdu have received limited attention in this domain. An obvious approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Muhammad Zain Ali , Bernhard Pfahringer , Tony Smith

Recently multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) has utilized images to improve the accuracy of NER in tweets. However, most of the multimodal methods use attention mechanisms to extract visual clues regardless of whether the text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Lin Sun , Jiquan Wang , Kai Zhang , Yindu Su , Fangsheng Weng

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to strong reasoning capabilities; however, evaluating such models in low-resource languages remains challenging due to the lack of standardized benchmarks. In particular, Urdu…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Muhammad Ali Shafique , Areej Mehboob , Layba Fiaz , Muhammad Usman Qadeer , Hamza Farooq

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

Medical Entity Recognition (MedER) is an essential NLP task for extracting meaningful entities from the medical corpus. Nowadays, MedER-based research outcomes can remarkably contribute to the development of automated systems in the medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tanjim Taharat Aurpa , Farzana Akter , Md. Mehedi Hasan , Shakil Ahmed , Shifat Ara Rafiq , Fatema Khan

This paper studies the multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) and multimodal relation extraction (MRE), which are important for multimedia social platform analysis. The core of MNER and MRE lies in incorporating evident visual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Shiyao Cui , Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Quangang Li , Tingwen Liu , Jinqiao Shi

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in NLP that is used to locate the key information in text and is primarily applied in conversational and search systems. In commercial applications, NER or comparable slot-filling methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Maithili Sabane , Aparna Ranade , Onkar Litake , Parth Patil , Raviraj Joshi , Dipali Kadam

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging and widely studied task that involves detecting and typing entities in text. So far,NER still approaches entity typing as a task of classification into universal classes (e.g. date, person, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Tristan Luiggi , Laure Soulier , Vincent Guigue , Siwar Jendoubi , Aurélien Baelde

The development of Urdu scene text detection, recognition, and Visual Question Answering (VQA) technologies is crucial for advancing accessibility, information retrieval, and linguistic diversity in digital content, facilitating better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Hiba Maryam , Ling Fu , Jiajun Song , Tajrian ABM Shafayet , Qidi Luo , Xiang Bai , Yuliang Liu

For languages with no annotated resources, unsupervised transfer of natural language processing models such as named-entity recognition (NER) from resource-rich languages would be an appealing capability. However, differences in words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jiateng Xie , Zhilin Yang , Graham Neubig , Noah A. Smith , Jaime Carbonell

Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems play a vital role in NLP applications such as machine translation, summarization, and question-answering. These systems identify named entities, which encompass real-world concepts like locations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Harsh Chaudhari , Anuja Patil , Dhanashree Lavekar , Pranav Khairnar , Raviraj Joshi , Sachin Pande

As more and more Arabic texts emerged on the Internet, extracting important information from these Arabic texts is especially useful. As a fundamental technology, Named entity recognition (NER) serves as the core component in information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiaoye Qu , Yingjie Gu , Qingrong Xia , Zechang Li , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) stands out as a pivotal mechanism for extracting structured insights from unstructured text. This manuscript offers an exhaustive exploration into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kalyani Pakhale