Learning “O” helps for learning more: Handling the unlabeled entity problem for class-incremental NER

R Ma, X Chen, Z Lin, X Zhou, J Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
As the categories of named entities rapidly increase, the deployed NER models are required
to keep updating toward recognizing more entity types, creating a demand for class …

Decomposing logits distillation for incremental named entity recognition

D Zhang, Y Yu, F Chen, X Chen - … of the 46th International ACM SIGIR …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Incremental Named Entity Recognition (INER) aims to continually train a model with new
data, recognizing emerging entity types without forgetting previously learned ones. Prior …

Toward recognizing more entity types in NER: An efficient implementation using only entity lexicons

M Peng, R Ma, Q Zhang, L Zhao, M Wei… - Findings of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
In this work, we explore the way to quickly adjust an existing named entity recognition (NER)
system to make it capable of recognizing entity types not defined in the system. As an …

Few-shot class-incremental learning for named entity recognition

R Wang, T Yu, H Zhao, S Kim, S Mitra… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Previous work of class-incremental learning for Named Entity Recognition (NER) relies on
the assumption that there exists abundance of labeled data for the training of new classes. In …

Task relation distillation and prototypical pseudo label for incremental named entity recognition

D Zhang, H Li, W Cong, R Xu, J Dong… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Incremental Named Entity Recognition (INER) involves the sequential learning of new entity
types without accessing the training data of previously learned types. However, INER faces …

Towards building more robust ner datasets: An empirical study on ner dataset bias from a dataset difficulty view

R Ma, X Wang, X Zhou, Q Zhang… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Recently, many studies have illustrated the robustness problem of Named Entity
Recognition (NER) systems: the NER models often rely on superficial entity patterns for …

Learning to progressively recognize new named entities with sequence to sequence models

L Chen, A Moschitti - … of the 27th International Conference on …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we propose to use a sequence to sequence model for Named Entity
Recognition (NER) and we explore the effectiveness of such model in a progressive NER …

Few-shot named entity recognition: An empirical baseline study

J Huang, C Li, K Subudhi, D Jose… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents an empirical study to efficiently build named entity recognition (NER)
systems when a small amount of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon recent …

Few-shot named entity recognition: A comprehensive study

J Huang, C Li, K Subudhi, D Jose… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a comprehensive study to efficiently build named entity recognition
(NER) systems when a small number of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon …

Unify Named Entity Recognition Scenarios via Contrastive Real-Time Updating Prototype

Y Liu, P Wang, W Ke, G Li, X Chen, J Zhao… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Supervised named entity recognition (NER) aims to classify entity mentions into a fixed
number of pre-defined types. However, in real-world scenarios, unknown entity types are …