Does Synthetic Data Help Named Entity Recognition for Low-Resource Languages?

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Hauptverfasser: Kamath, Gaurav, Vajjala, Sowmya
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author Kamath, Gaurav
Vajjala, Sowmya
author_facet Kamath, Gaurav
Vajjala, Sowmya
contents Named Entity Recognition(NER) for low-resource languages aims to produce robust systems for languages where there is limited labeled training data available, and has been an area of increasing interest within NLP. Data augmentation for increasing the amount of low-resource labeled data is a common practice. In this paper, we explore the role of synthetic data in the context of multilingual, low-resource NER, considering 11 languages from diverse language families. Our results suggest that synthetic data does in fact hold promise for low-resource language NER, though we see significant variation between languages.
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spellingShingle Does Synthetic Data Help Named Entity Recognition for Low-Resource Languages?
Kamath, Gaurav
Vajjala, Sowmya
Computation and Language
Named Entity Recognition(NER) for low-resource languages aims to produce robust systems for languages where there is limited labeled training data available, and has been an area of increasing interest within NLP. Data augmentation for increasing the amount of low-resource labeled data is a common practice. In this paper, we explore the role of synthetic data in the context of multilingual, low-resource NER, considering 11 languages from diverse language families. Our results suggest that synthetic data does in fact hold promise for low-resource language NER, though we see significant variation between languages.
title Does Synthetic Data Help Named Entity Recognition for Low-Resource Languages?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16814