From BERT to T5: A Study of Named Entity Recognition

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contents Named entity recognition (NER) has been one of the essential preliminary steps in modern NLP applications. This report focuses on implementing the NER task on finetuning two pretrained models: (i) an encoder-only model (BERT) with a simple classification head, and (ii) a sequence-to-sequence model (T5) with few-shot prompts. Under the original 7-class tag and 3-class simplified tag schemes, BERT is applied a weighted cross-entropy for training loss, and T5 is fine-tuned with two validation strategies. It also conducted an ablation study with different hyperparameters. Moreover, the related analysis provides valuable insights into common errors in BERT and the two models' performance. Based on a bunch of performance metrics, this report aims to compare the above two architectures and explore their abilities in the sequence labelling task, laying the groundwork for further practical use cases.
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spellingShingle From BERT to T5: A Study of Named Entity Recognition
Jia, Mei
Computation and Language
Named entity recognition (NER) has been one of the essential preliminary steps in modern NLP applications. This report focuses on implementing the NER task on finetuning two pretrained models: (i) an encoder-only model (BERT) with a simple classification head, and (ii) a sequence-to-sequence model (T5) with few-shot prompts. Under the original 7-class tag and 3-class simplified tag schemes, BERT is applied a weighted cross-entropy for training loss, and T5 is fine-tuned with two validation strategies. It also conducted an ablation study with different hyperparameters. Moreover, the related analysis provides valuable insights into common errors in BERT and the two models' performance. Based on a bunch of performance metrics, this report aims to compare the above two architectures and explore their abilities in the sequence labelling task, laying the groundwork for further practical use cases.
title From BERT to T5: A Study of Named Entity Recognition
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18462