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Although deep learning techniques have shown significant achievements, they frequently depend on extensive amounts of hand-labeled data and tend to perform inadequately in few-shot scenarios. The objective of this study is to devise a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Leilei Su , Jian Chen , Yifan Peng , Cong Sun

Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Peter Szolovits

In biomedical literature, it is common for entity boundaries to not align with word boundaries. Therefore, effective identification of entity spans requires approaches capable of considering tokens that are smaller than words. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Emily Sheng , Prem Natarajan

In this work, we address the NER problem by splitting it into two logical sub-tasks: (1) Span Detection which simply extracts entity mention spans irrespective of entity type; (2) Span Classification which classifies the spans into their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jatin Arora , Youngja Park

Medical named entity recognition (NER) has wide applications in intelligent healthcare. Sufficient labeled data is critical for training accurate medical NER model. However, the labeled data in a single medical platform is usually limited.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Suyu Ge , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Spoken Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract named entities from speech and categorise them into types like person, location, organization, etc. In this work, we present VietMed-NER - the first spoken NER dataset in the medical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Khai Le-Duc , David Thulke , Hung-Phong Tran , Long Vo-Dang , Khai-Nguyen Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy , Ralf Schlüter

We consider the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) on biomedical scientific literature, and more specifically the genomic variants recognition in this work. Significant success has been achieved for NER on canonical tasks in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chaoran Cheng , Fei Tan , Zhi Wei

Background: Finding biomedical named entities is one of the most essential tasks in biomedical text mining. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have been applied to biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) and showed promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Wonjin Yoon , Chan Ho So , Jinhyuk Lee , Jaewoo Kang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated dominating performance in many NLP tasks, especially on generative tasks. However, they often fall short in some information extraction tasks, particularly those requiring domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junyi Bian , Jiaxuan Zheng , Yuyi Zhang , Shanfeng Zhu

Domain-specific named entity recognition (NER) on Computer Science (CS) scholarly articles is an information extraction task that is arguably more challenging for the various annotation aims that can beset the task and has been less studied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to identify mentions of rigid designators from text belonging to predefined semantic types such as person, location, organization etc. NER always serves as the foundation for many natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jing Li , Aixin Sun , Jianglei Han , Chenliang Li

Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

Named entity recognition (NER), a task that identifies and categorizes named entities such as persons or organizations from text, is traditionally framed as a multi-class classification problem. However, this approach often overlooks the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Ngoc Dang Nguyen , Wei Tan , Lan Du , Wray Buntine , Richard Beare , Changyou Chen

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Named entity recognition (NER) of chemicals and drugs is a critical domain of information extraction in biochemical research. NER provides support for text mining in biochemical reactions, including entity relation extraction, attribute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jian Liu , Lei Gao , Sujie Guo , Rui Ding , Xin Huang , Long Ye , Qinghua Meng , Asef Nazari , Dhananjay Thiruvady

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

Most state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) rely on the availability of large amounts of labeled data, making them challenging to extend to new, lower-resourced languages. However, there are now several proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Aditi Chaudhary , Jiateng Xie , Zaid Sheikh , Graham Neubig , Jaime G. Carbonell

Named entity recognition (NER) is a natural language processing task (NLP), which aims to identify named entities and classify them like person, location, organization, etc. In the Arabic language, we can find a considerable size of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Alaa Shaker , Alaa Aldarf , Igor Bessmertny