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Approach: They propose a holistic structure parsing algorithm to reveal the entire NEs in a sentence . they introduce points-wise mutual information and other frequency features from corpus-aware statistics .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on widely-used benchmarks and achieves state-of-the-art.

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Challenge: Named entity recognition (NER) is a challenging task in natural language processing . nested NER requires sophisticated techniques to identify entities within entities .
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Challenge: Existing approaches treat Named Entity Recognition (NER) as a sequence labeling task.
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Challenge: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental NLP task.
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