@inproceedings{kondragunta-etal-2023-improving,
    title = "Improving and Simplifying Template-Based Named Entity Recognition",
    author = "Kondragunta, Murali  and
      Perez-de-Vi{\~n}aspre, Olatz  and
      Oronoz, Maite",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop",
    month = may,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-srw.8",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-srw.8",
    pages = "79--86",
    abstract = "With the rise in larger language models, researchers started exploiting them by pivoting the downstream tasks as language modeling tasks using prompts. In this work, we convert the Named Entity Recognition task into a seq2seq task by generating the synthetic sentences using templates. Our main contribution is the conversion framework which provides faster inference. In addition, we test our method{'}s performance in resource-rich, low resource and domain transfer settings. Results show that our method achieves comparable results in the resource-rich setting and outperforms the current seq2seq paradigm state-of-the-art approach in few-shot settings. Through the experiments, we observed that the negative examples play an important role in model{'}s performance. We applied our approach over BART and T5-base models, and we notice that the T5 architecture aligns better with our task. The work is performed on the datasets in English language.",
}