Uncertainty Estimation on Sequential Labeling via Uncertainty Transmission (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition tasks are often suboptimal for NER . previous work focused on UE-NER, which estimates uncertainty scores for ner . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Sequential Labeling Posterior Network to estimate uncertainty for NER . they propose to consider wrong-span cases and to evaluate the specificity of wrong-pan cases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves on three datasets and AUPR on MIT-Restaurant datasets. |
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