Guidance-Based Prompt Data Augmentation in Specialized Domains for Named Entity Recognition (2024.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | specialized fields such as science and biology face significant challenges due to the scarcity of quality data. |
| Approach: | They propose a guidance data augmentation technique that abstracts context and sentence structure and maintains context-entity relationships for DA. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method enhances the training performance of named entity recognition tasks while maintaining context-entity relationships. |
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