GLiNER: Generalist Model for Named Entity Recognition using Bidirectional Transformer
Urchade Zaratiana, Nadi Tomeh, Pierre Holat, Thierry Charnois
Abstract
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is essential in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Traditional NER models are effective but limited to a set of predefined entity types. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) can extract arbitrary entities through natural language instructions, offering greater flexibility. However, their size and cost, particularly for those accessed via APIs like ChatGPT, make them impractical in resource-limited scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a compact NER model trained to identify any type of entity. Leveraging a bidirectional transformer encoder, our model, GLiNER, facilitates parallel entity extraction, an advantage over the slow sequential token generation of LLMs. Through comprehensive testing, GLiNER demonstrate strong performance, outperforming both ChatGPT and fine-tuned LLMs in zero-shot evaluations on various NER benchmarks.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.naacl-long.300
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, Steven Bethard
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5364–5376
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.300
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Urchade Zaratiana, Nadi Tomeh, Pierre Holat, and Thierry Charnois. 2024. GLiNER: Generalist Model for Named Entity Recognition using Bidirectional Transformer. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5364–5376, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- GLiNER: Generalist Model for Named Entity Recognition using Bidirectional Transformer (Zaratiana et al., NAACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jeptaln-2024-ingestion/2024.naacl-long.300.pdf