NuNER: Entity Recognition Encoder Pre-training via LLM-Annotated Data
Sergei Bogdanov, Alexandre Constantin, Timothée Bernard, Benoit Crabbé, Etienne P Bernard
Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in data annotation, opening the way for new approaches to solve classic NLP problems. In this paper, we show how to use LLMs to create NuNER, a compact language representation model specialized in the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task. NuNER can be fine-tuned to solve downstream NER problems in a data-efficient way, outperforming similar-sized foundation models in the few-shot regime and competing with much larger LLMs. We find that the size and entity-type diversity of the pre-training dataset are key to achieving good performance. We view NuNER as a member of the broader family of task-specific foundation models, recently unlocked by LLMs. NuNER and NuNER’s dataset are open-sourced with MIT License.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{bogdanov-etal-2024-nuner,
title = "{N}u{NER}: Entity Recognition Encoder Pre-training via {LLM}-Annotated Data",
author = "Bogdanov, Sergei and
Constantin, Alexandre and
Bernard, Timoth{\'e}e and
Crabb{\'e}, Benoit and
Bernard, Etienne P",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.660/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.660",
pages = "11829--11841"
}