2025
NER Retriever: Zero-Shot Named Entity Retrieval with Type-Aware Embeddings
EMNLP 2025
We present NER Retriever, a zero-shot retrieval framework for ad-hoc Named Entity Recognition (NER), where a user-defined type description is used to retrieve documents mentioning entities of that type. Instead of relying on fixed schemas or fine-tuned models, our method builds on pretrained languag