Challenge: Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have been applied in NLP tasks but require labeled data for downstream tasks.
Approach: They propose a method for low-resource named entity recognition that uses prompts to get entailment scores for each candidate and inject tagging labels into prompts.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves competitive performance on the CoNLL03 dataset, and better than fine-tuned counterparts on the MIT Movie and Few-NERD datasets in low-resource settings.

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