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Named entity recognition (NER) is evolving from a sequence labeling task into a generative paradigm with the rise of large language models (LLMs). We conduct a systematic evaluation of open-source LLMs on both flat and nested NER tasks. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qi Zhan , Yile Wang , Hui Huang

In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) is recognized as a critical technology, employed across a wide array of applications. Traditional methodologies for annotating datasets for NER models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuji Naraki , Ryosuke Yamaki , Yoshikazu Ikeda , Takafumi Horie , Kotaro Yoshida , Ryotaro Shimizu , Hiroki Naganuma

The ability of machines to comprehend and produce language that is similar to that of humans has revolutionized sectors like customer service, healthcare, and finance thanks to the quick advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Swetha S , Ram Sundhar K Shaju , Rakshana M , Ganesh R , Balavedhaa S , Thiruvaazhi U

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in data annotation, opening the way for new approaches to solve classic NLP problems. In this paper, we show how to use LLMs to create NuNER, a compact language representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sergei Bogdanov , Alexandre Constantin , Timothée Bernard , Benoit Crabbé , Etienne Bernard

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

This research addresses privacy protection in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by introducing a novel algorithm based on differential privacy, aimed at safeguarding user data in common applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shaobo Liu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Yuanshuai Luo , Linxiao Wu , Rui Wang

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) are an integral part of modern AI that have led to breakthrough performances in complex AI tasks. Major AI companies with expensive infrastructures are able to develop and train these large models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Rouzbeh Behnia , Mohamamdreza Ebrahimi , Jason Pacheco , Balaji Padmanabhan

The generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs) use billions of parameters to extensively analyse large datasets and extract critical private information such as, context, specific details,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Imdad Ullah , Najm Hassan , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Basem Suleiman , Tariq Ahamed Ahanger , Zawar Shah , Junaid Qadir , Salil S. Kanhere

Privacy preservation remains a key challenge in data mining and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Previous research shows that the input text or even text embeddings can leak private information. This concern motivates our research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chen Qu , Weize Kong , Liu Yang , Mingyang Zhang , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork

The rapid development of language models (LMs) brings unprecedented accessibility and usage for both models and users. On the one hand, powerful LMs achieve state-of-the-art performance over numerous downstream NLP tasks. On the other hand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Haoran Li , Dadi Guo , Donghao Li , Wei Fan , Qi Hu , Xin Liu , Chunkit Chan , Duanyi Yao , Yuan Yao , Yangqiu Song

Exploring the application of powerful large language models (LLMs) on the named entity recognition (NER) task has drawn much attention recently. This work pushes the performance boundary of zero-shot NER with LLMs by proposing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tingyu Xie , Qi Li , Yan Zhang , Zuozhu Liu , Hongwei Wang

The use of language technologies in high-stake settings is increasing in recent years, mostly motivated by the success of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, despite the great performance of LLMs, they are are susceptible to ethical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Alejandro Peña , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , Gonzalo Mancera , Miguel Lopez , Ruben Tolosana

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in NLP systems for question answering, information retrieval, relation extraction, etc. NER systems have been studied and developed widely for decades, but accurate systems using deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard

Recent privacy research on large language models (LLMs) has shown that they achieve near-human-level performance at inferring personal data from online texts. With ever-increasing model capabilities, existing text anonymization methods are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Robin Staab , Mark Vero , Mislav Balunović , Martin Vechev

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), has significantly advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying entities like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sameer Neupane , Jeevan Chapagain , Nobal B. Niraula , Diwa Koirala

Named Entity Recognition (NER) serves as a fundamental task in natural language understanding, bearing direct implications for web content analysis, search engines, and information retrieval systems. Fine-tuned NER models exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhen Zhang , Yuhua Zhao , Hang Gao , Mengting Hu

The use of BERT, one of the most popular language models, has led to improvements in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER) i.e. automatic identification of named entities such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Harshil Darji , Jelena Mitrović , Michael Granitzer

As large language models (LLMs) become integral to recruitment processes, concerns about AI-induced bias have intensified. This study examines biases in candidate interview reports generated by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Django Beatty , Kritsada Masanthia , Teepakorn Kaphol , Niphan Sethi

Despite advances in the field of privacy-preserving Natural Language Processing (NLP), a significant challenge remains the accurate evaluation of privacy. As a potential solution, using LLMs as a privacy evaluator presents a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Stephen Meisenbacher , Alexandra Klymenko , Florian Matthes

Data containing personal information is increasingly used to train, fine-tune, or query Large Language Models (LLMs). Text is typically scrubbed of identifying information prior to use, often with tools such as Microsoft's Presidio or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nataša Krčo , Zexi Yao , Matthieu Meeus , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye