Challenge: Existing approaches for Named Entity Recognition (NER) use extensive labeled data for model training, which struggles in low-resource scenarios.
Approach: They propose a lightweight tuning paradigm for low-resource NER via pluggable prompting . they construct a learnable verbalizer of entity categories without any label-specific classifiers .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baselines and class transfer models in low-resource scenarios.

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