Challenge: Existing approaches to named entity recognition (NER) are limited by the cost of labeling and labeling, especially for low-resource languages.
Approach: They propose a model-collaboration-based denoising scheme that enables models trained on different data sources to collaboratively denoise pseudo labels used by each other.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves superior results on benchmark datasets and can generalize to distant languages.

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Challenge: Named entity recognition (NER) is a method of detecting entity spans and classifying them into predefined categories.
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Improving Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition with Self-Collaborative Denoising Learning (2021.emnlp-main)

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A Label-Aware Autoregressive Framework for Cross-Domain NER (2022.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to named entity recognition (NER) focus on reducing discrepancy between tokens and tokens, but transfer of valuable label information is often not considered or ignored.
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Challenge: Existing methods to bridge the linguistic gap between self-training and monolingual named entity recognition (NER) however, due to sub-optimal performance on target languages, the pseudo labels are noisy and limit the overall performance.
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Challenge: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental and widely used task in natural language processing.
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Challenge: Existing approaches to named entity recognition (NER) are limited by label projection with pairwise texts or direct model transfer.
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ConNER: Consistency Training for Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing consistency training methods for named entity recognition (NER) are likely to violate the consistency hypothesis or focus on coarse-grain consistency.
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Challenge: Existing approaches to name entity recognition neglect distribution skewness and pseudo-label bias . despite promising results, current approaches neglect these problems .
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Label Refinement via Contrastive Learning for Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition (2022.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing methods to locate and classify entities using knowledge bases and unlabeled corpus are expensive and limited application.
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AdvPicker: Effectively Leveraging Unlabeled Data via Adversarial Discriminator for Cross-Lingual NER (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Named entity recognition models rely on expensive labeled data for training, which is not always available across languages.
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