Challenge: Existing methods for named entity recognition assume entities are not nested within other entities, so-called flat NER.
Approach: They propose a layered method for nested named entity recognition . they use a set of hidden states to exclude the influence of the best path .
Outcome: The proposed method performs better on ACE2004, ACE2005, and GENIA datasets.

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