Taku Oi


2025

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Enhancing NER by Harnessing Multiple Datasets with Conditional Variational Autoencoders
Taku Oi | Makoto Miwa
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

We propose a novel method to integrate a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) into a span-based Named Entity Recognition (NER) model to model the shared and unshared information among labels in multiple datasets and ease the training on the datasets. Experimental results using multiple biomedical datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving improved performance on the BioRED dataset.