BANER: Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition

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Autori principali: Guo, Quanjiang, Dong, Yihong, Tian, Ling, Kang, Zhao, Zhang, Yu, Wang, Sijie
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Guo, Quanjiang
Dong, Yihong
Tian, Ling
Kang, Zhao
Zhang, Yu
Wang, Sijie
author_facet Guo, Quanjiang
Dong, Yihong
Tian, Ling
Kang, Zhao
Zhang, Yu
Wang, Sijie
contents Despite the recent success of two-stage prototypical networks in few-shot named entity recognition (NER), challenges such as over/under-detected false spans in the span detection stage and unaligned entity prototypes in the type classification stage persist. Additionally, LLMs have not proven to be effective few-shot information extractors in general. In this paper, we propose an approach called Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition to address these issues. We introduce a boundary-aware contrastive learning strategy to enhance the LLM's ability to perceive entity boundaries for generalized entity spans. Additionally, we utilize LoRAHub to align information from the target domain to the source domain, thereby enhancing adaptive cross-domain classification capabilities. Extensive experiments across various benchmarks demonstrate that our framework outperforms prior methods, validating its effectiveness. In particular, the proposed strategies demonstrate effectiveness across a range of LLM architectures. The code and data are released on https://github.com/UESTC-GQJ/BANER.
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spellingShingle BANER: Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition
Guo, Quanjiang
Dong, Yihong
Tian, Ling
Kang, Zhao
Zhang, Yu
Wang, Sijie
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Despite the recent success of two-stage prototypical networks in few-shot named entity recognition (NER), challenges such as over/under-detected false spans in the span detection stage and unaligned entity prototypes in the type classification stage persist. Additionally, LLMs have not proven to be effective few-shot information extractors in general. In this paper, we propose an approach called Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition to address these issues. We introduce a boundary-aware contrastive learning strategy to enhance the LLM's ability to perceive entity boundaries for generalized entity spans. Additionally, we utilize LoRAHub to align information from the target domain to the source domain, thereby enhancing adaptive cross-domain classification capabilities. Extensive experiments across various benchmarks demonstrate that our framework outperforms prior methods, validating its effectiveness. In particular, the proposed strategies demonstrate effectiveness across a range of LLM architectures. The code and data are released on https://github.com/UESTC-GQJ/BANER.
title BANER: Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02228