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The aim of this paper is to propose a method for tagging named entities (NE), using natural language processing techniques. Beyond their literal meaning, named entities are frequently subject to metonymy. We show the limits of current NE…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-12-08 Thierry Poibeau

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Recent works treat named entity recognition as a reading comprehension task, constructing type-specific queries manually to extract entities. This paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongliang Shen , Xiaobin Wang , Zeqi Tan , Guangwei Xu , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

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

State of the art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models have achieved an impressive ability to extract common phrases from text that belong to labels such as location, organization, time, and person. However, typical NER systems that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandra Loessberg-Zahl

Deep learning has yielded state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks including named entity recognition (NER). However, this typically requires large amounts of labeled data. In this work, we demonstrate that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yanyao Shen , Hyokun Yun , Zachary C. Lipton , Yakov Kronrod , Animashree Anandkumar

Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in information extraction, which has a significant impact on downstream applications. Due to the lack of natural separators in Chinese, previous NER methods mostly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yaqiong Qiao , Shixuan Peng

It has been shown that named entity recognition (NER) could benefit from incorporating the long-distance structured information captured by dependency trees. We believe this is because both types of features - the contextual information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lu Xu , Zhanming Jie , Wei Lu , Lidong Bing

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a task aiming to identify named entities via limited annotated samples. Recently, prototypical networks have shown promising performance in few-shot NER. Most of prototypical networks will utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mozhi Zhang , Hang Yan , Yaqian Zhou , Xipeng Qiu

Most named entity recognition (NER) systems focus on improving model performance, ignoring the need to quantify model uncertainty, which is critical to the reliability of NER systems in open environments. Evidential deep learning (EDL) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhen Zhang , Mengting Hu , Shiwan Zhao , Minlie Huang , Haotian Wang , Lemao Liu , Zhirui Zhang , Zhe Liu , Bingzhe Wu

Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) has been proposed to exploit the automatically labeled training data instead of human annotations. The distantly annotated datasets are often noisy and contain a considerable number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Lu Xu , Lidong Bing , Wei Lu

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition presents significant challenges due to the complexity of biomedical terminology and inconsistencies in annotation across datasets. This paper introduces SRU-NER (Slot-based Recurrent Unit NER), a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 João Ruano , Gonçalo M. Correia , Leonor Barreiros , Afonso Mendes

For many natural language processing (NLP) tasks the amount of annotated data is limited. This urges a need to apply semi-supervised learning techniques, such as transfer learning or meta-learning. In this work we tackle Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alexander Fritzler , Varvara Logacheva , Maksim Kretov

Recent advances in multimodal pre-trained models have significantly improved information extraction from visually-rich documents (VrDs), in which named entity recognition (NER) is treated as a sequence-labeling task of predicting the BIO…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chong Zhang , Ya Guo , Yi Tu , Huan Chen , Jinyang Tang , Huijia Zhu , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-established task of information extraction which has been studied for decades. More recently, studies reporting NER experiments on social media texts have emerged. On the other hand, stance detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Dilek Küçük

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task that requires substantial annotated data, making it challenging in low-resource scenarios where label acquisition is expensive. While zero-shot and instruction-tuned approaches have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nanda Kumar Rengarajan , Jun Yan , Chun Wang

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

After decades of massive digitisation, an unprecedented amount of historical documents is available in digital format, along with their machine-readable texts. While this represents a major step forward with respect to preservation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Maud Ehrmann , Ahmed Hamdi , Elvys Linhares Pontes , Matteo Romanello , Antoine Doucet

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the most common tasks of the natural language processing. The purpose of NER is to find and classify tokens in text documents into predefined categories called tags, such as person names, quantity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 L. T. Anh , M. Y. Arkhipov , M. S. Burtsev

This paper presents a framework for Named Entity Recognition (NER) leveraging the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model in natural language processing (NLP). NER is a fundamental task in NLP with broad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mo Sun , Siheng Xiong , Yuankai Cai , Bowen Zuo

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task for online advertisement. State-of-the-art solutions leverage pre-trained language models for this task. However, three major challenges remain unresolved: web queries differ from natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Simiao Zuo , Pengfei Tang , Xinyu Hu , Qiang Lou , Jian Jiao , Denis Charles