SpanNER: Named Entity Re-/Recognition as Span Prediction Jinlan Fu author Xuanjing Huang author Pengfei Liu author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) Chengqing Zong editor Fei Xia editor Wenjie Li editor Roberto Navigli editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication fu-etal-2021-spanner 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.558 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.558/ 2021-08 7183 7195