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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

The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important component of many natural language processing systems, such as relation extraction and knowledge graph construction. In this work, we present a simple and effective approach for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Urchade Zaratiana , Pierre Holat , Nadi Tomeh , Thierry Charnois

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

So far, named entity recognition (NER) has been involved with three major types, including flat, overlapped (aka. nested), and discontinuous NER, which have mostly been studied individually. Recently, a growing interest has been built for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jingye Li , Hao Fei , Jiang Liu , Shengqiong Wu , Meishan Zhang , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji , Fei Li

This paper investigates the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) for extreme low-resource languages with only a few hundred tagged data samples. NER is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). A critical driver…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shashank Sonkar , Zichao Wang , Richard G. Baraniuk

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in regional dialects is a critical yet underexplored area in Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially for low-resource languages like Bangla. While NER systems for Standard Bangla have made progress, no…

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

India's rich cultural and linguistic diversity poses various challenges in the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly in Named Entity Recognition (NER). NER is a NLP task that aims to identify and classify tokens into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mohammed Amaan Dhamaskar , Rasika Ransing

Named entity recognition (NER) is used to extract information from various documents and texts such as names and dates. It is important to extract education and work experience information from resumes in order to filter them. Considering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Ege Kesim , Aysu Deliahmetoglu

Recently, neural methods have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks for many languages without the need for manually crafted features. However, these models still require manually annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 M Saiful Bari , Shafiq Joty , Prathyusha Jwalapuram

End-to-end speech Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to directly extract entities from speech. Prior work has shown that end-to-end (E2E) approaches can outperform cascaded pipelines for English, French, and Chinese, but Arabic remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Youssef Saidi , Haroun Elleuch , Fethi Bougares

Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Myanmar Language is essential to Myanmar natural language processing research work. In this work, NER for Myanmar language is treated as a sequence tagging problem and the effectiveness of deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Hsu Myat Mo , Khin Mar Soe

Named Entity Recognition (NER) serves as a foundational component in many natural language processing (NLP) pipelines. However, current NER models typically output a single predicted label sequence without any accompanying measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Matthew Singer , Srijan Sengupta , Karl Pazdernik

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and domains. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying and classifying proper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shibingfeng Zhang , Giovanni Colavizza

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

Useful conversational agents must accurately capture named entities to minimize error for downstream tasks, for example, asking a voice assistant to play a track from a certain artist, initiating navigation to a specific location, or…

We conducted a human subject study of named entity recognition on a noisy corpus of conversational music recommendation queries, with many irregular and novel named entities. We evaluated the human NER linguistic behaviour in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a foundational task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), which facilitates semantic search and structured data extraction. We introduce \textbf{AWED-FiNER}, an open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Prachuryya Kaushik , Ashish Anand

Although modern named entity recognition (NER) systems show impressive performance on standard datasets, they perform poorly when presented with noisy data. In particular, capitalization is a strong signal for entities in many languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Stephen Mayhew , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental component in many applications, such as Web Search and Voice Assistants. Although deep neural networks greatly improve the performance of NER, due to the requirement of large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shining Liang , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Linjun Shou , Wanli Zuo , Xianglin Zuo , Daxin Jiang