ZeroNER: Fueling Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Entity Type Descriptions (2025.findings-acl)
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Alessio Cocchieri, Marcos Martínez Galindo, Giacomo Frisoni, Gianluca Moro, Claudio Sartori, Giuseppe Tagliavini
| Challenge: | Existing zero-shot learning methods rely on entity type names for generalization . current solutions require large datasets and prioritize a handful of commonly occurring types . |
| Approach: | They propose a description-driven framework that enhances hard zero-shot NER in low-resource settings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing models by up to 16% in the F1 score . it also surpasses baseline models that use type names alone . |
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