Financial Named Entity Recognition: How Far Can LLM Go?

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Main Authors: Lu, Yi-Te, Huo, Yintong
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author Lu, Yi-Te
Huo, Yintong
author_facet Lu, Yi-Te
Huo, Yintong
contents The surge of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the extraction and analysis of crucial information from a growing volume of financial statements, announcements, and business news. Recognition for named entities to construct structured data poses a significant challenge in analyzing financial documents and is a foundational task for intelligent financial analytics. However, how effective are these generic LLMs and their performance under various prompts are yet need a better understanding. To fill in the blank, we present a systematic evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs and prompting methods in the financial Named Entity Recognition (NER) problem. Specifically, our experimental results highlight their strengths and limitations, identify five representative failure types, and provide insights into their potential and challenges for domain-specific tasks.
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spellingShingle Financial Named Entity Recognition: How Far Can LLM Go?
Lu, Yi-Te
Huo, Yintong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The surge of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the extraction and analysis of crucial information from a growing volume of financial statements, announcements, and business news. Recognition for named entities to construct structured data poses a significant challenge in analyzing financial documents and is a foundational task for intelligent financial analytics. However, how effective are these generic LLMs and their performance under various prompts are yet need a better understanding. To fill in the blank, we present a systematic evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs and prompting methods in the financial Named Entity Recognition (NER) problem. Specifically, our experimental results highlight their strengths and limitations, identify five representative failure types, and provide insights into their potential and challenges for domain-specific tasks.
title Financial Named Entity Recognition: How Far Can LLM Go?
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02237