Entity Recognition
Entity recognition (NER) is a natural language processing task focused on automatically identifying and classifying named entities (e.g., people, organizations, locations) within text. Current research emphasizes improving NER accuracy and robustness across diverse domains and languages, often leveraging large language models (LLMs) and transformer architectures, along with techniques like few-shot learning and data augmentation to address data scarcity and noise. The advancements in NER have significant implications for various applications, including biomedical literature mining, clinical data analysis, and information extraction from unstructured documents, ultimately facilitating knowledge discovery and improved decision-making.
Papers
An Experimental Study on Data Augmentation Techniques for Named Entity Recognition on Low-Resource Domains
Arthur Elwing Torres, Edleno Silva de Moura, Altigran Soares da Silva, Mario A. Nascimento, Filipe Mesquita
Do I Know This Entity? Knowledge Awareness and Hallucinations in Language Models
Javier Ferrando, Oscar Obeso, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda
ReverseNER: A Self-Generated Example-Driven Framework for Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition with Large Language Models
Anbang Wang, Difei Mei, Zhichao Zhang, Xiuxiu Bai, Ran Yao, Zewen Fang, Min Hu, Zhirui Cao, Haitao Sun, Yifeng Guo, Hongyao Zhou, Yu Guo
Improving Few-Shot Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition by Instruction Tuning a Word-Embedding based Retrieval Augmented Large Language Model
Subhadip Nandi, Neeraj Agrawal