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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qiuhao Lu , Rui Li , Andrew Wen , Jinlian Wang , Liwei Wang , Hongfang Liu

In this paper we describe our submissions to the 2nd and 3rd SlavNER Shared Tasks held at BSNLP 2019 and BSNLP 2021, respectively. The tasks focused on the analysis of Named Entities in multilingual Web documents in Slavic languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Paweł Rychlikowski , Bartłomiej Najdecki , Adrian Łańcucki , Adam Kaczmarek

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

Weak supervision has shown promising results in many natural language processing tasks, such as Named Entity Recognition (NER). Existing work mainly focuses on learning deep NER models only with weak supervision, i.e., without any human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Haoming Jiang , Danqing Zhang , Tianyu Cao , Bing Yin , Tuo Zhao

We present DaMuEL, a large Multilingual Dataset for Entity Linking containing data in 53 languages. DaMuEL consists of two components: a knowledge base that contains language-agnostic information about entities, including their claims from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 David Kubeša , Milan Straka

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

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Entity Linking (EL), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

Open Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying arbitrary types of entities from arbitrary domains, remains challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies suggest that fine-tuning LLMs on extensive NER data can…

This paper presents ReverseNER, a method aimed at overcoming the limitation of large language models (LLMs) in zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) tasks, arising from their reliance on pre-provided demonstrations. ReverseNER tackles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Anbang Wang , Difei Mei , Zhichao Zhang , Xiuxiu Bai , Ran Yao , Zewen Fang , Min Hu , Zhirui Cao , Haitao Sun , Yifeng Guo , Hongyao Zhou , Yu Guo

Named entity linking (NEL) in news is a challenging endeavour due to the frequency of unseen and emerging entities, which necessitates the use of unsupervised or zero-shot methods. However, such methods tend to come with caveats, such as no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Marko Čuljak , Andreas Spitz , Robert West , Akhil Arora

Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations). In this survey, we first present an overview of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Imed Keraghel , Stanislas Morbieu , Mohamed Nadif

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

Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data. There have been efforts on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Xiaotao Gu , Teng Ren , Jiawei Han

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

Domain-specific Named Entity Recognition (NER), whose goal is to recognize domain-specific entities and their categories, provides an important support for constructing domain knowledge graphs. Currently, deep learning-based methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Le Xiao , Yunfei Xu , Jing Zhao

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

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

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER), the task of identifying named entities with only a limited amount of labeled data, has gained increasing significance in natural language processing. While existing methodologies have shown some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yafeng Zhang , Zilan Yu , Yuang Huang , Jing Tang

Most weakly supervised named entity recognition (NER) models rely on domain-specific dictionaries provided by experts. This approach is infeasible in many domains where dictionaries do not exist. While a phrase retrieval model was used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jaewoo Kang