Challenge: Named entity recognition (NER) methods can detect entity spans and classify them into pre-defined categories.
Approach: They propose a type-aware decomposed framework to filter out false spans . they propose 'type-against-type' learning strategy to construct more accurate prototypes based on type names as references.
Outcome: The proposed framework yields state-of-the-art on several benchmarks.

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