| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a well researched task and widely used in real world NLP scenarios. |
| Approach: | They perform a broad evaluation of Named Entity Recognition using a popular dataset that takes into consideration various text genres and sources constituting the dataset at hand. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models perform on a popular dataset and generate six new adversarial test sets through small perturbations in the original test set, replacing select entities while retaining the context. |
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| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a widely adopted NLP task . authors present three variants of NER task, with dataset to support them . |
| Approach: | They propose three variants of the NER task, together with a dataset to support them . they propose a move towards more fine-grained entities and zero-shot recognition . |
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A Survey on Recent Advances in Named Entity Recognition from Deep Learning models (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in NLP systems for question answering, information retrieval, relation extraction, etc. |
| Approach: | They propose to use recurrent neural networks to generate NERs over characters, sub-words and/or word embeddings to improve named entity recognition. |
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Random Splitting Negatively Impacts NER Evaluation: Quantifying and Eliminating the Overestimation of NER Performance (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition models are evaluated on their ability to identify entity mentions in text. |
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Named Entity Recognition for Entity Linking: What Works and What’s Next (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Entity Linking (EL) systems have achieved impressive results on standard benchmarks thanks to the contextualized representations provided by recent pretrained language models. |
| Approach: | They propose to exploit Named Entity Recognition (NER) to narrow the gap between EL systems trained on high and low amounts of labeled data. |
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Reconstructing NER Corpora: a Case Study on Bulgarian (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Named Enel Linking (NEL) are two related tasks that are under-resourced for the Slavic languages. |
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Interpretable Multi-dataset Evaluation for Named Entity Recognition (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluation methods for named entity recognition tasks are difficult to interpret . authors present a general methodology for interpretable evaluation for named entities . |
| Approach: | They propose a general methodology for interpretable evaluation for named entity recognition task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation method enables researchers to interpret differences in models and datasets . it makes it easy for future researchers to run similar analyses and drive progress in this area . |
CoNLL#: Fine-grained Error Analysis and a Corrected Test Set for CoNLL-03 English (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | a glass ceiling for named entity recognition systems has been suggested for 2021 . however, the performance of the most popular NER benchmarks has plateaued since then . we investigate what NER models are still struggling with . |
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Named Entity Recognition in Twitter: A Dataset and Analysis on Short-Term Temporal Shifts (2022.aacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a longstanding NLP task that consists of identifying an entity in a sentence or document. |
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Toward Recognizing More Entity Types in NER: An Efficient Implementation using Only Entity Lexicons (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing named entity recognition systems require large scale labeled data to perform, while annotation of NER data is laborious and time-consuming. |
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HiNER: A large Hindi Named Entity Recognition Dataset (2022.lrec-1)
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Rudra Murthy, Pallab Bhattacharjee, Rahul Sharnagat, Jyotsana Khatri, Diptesh Kanojia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a lowerlevel task that aims to provide class labels like Person, Location, Organisation, Time, and Number to words in free text. |
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