muNERa at WojoodNER 2024: Multi-tasking NER Approach

Nouf Alotaibi, Haneen Alhomoud, Hanan Murayshid, Waad Alshammari, Nouf Alshalawi, Sakhar Alkhereyf


Abstract
This paper presents our system “muNERa”, submitted to the WojoodNER 2024 shared task at the second ArabicNLP conference. We participated in two subtasks, the flat and nested fine-grained NER sub-tasks (1 and 2). muNERa achieved first place in the nested NER sub-task and second place in the flat NER sub-task. The system is based on the TANL framework (CITATION),by using a sequence-to-sequence structured language translation approach to model both tasks. We utilize the pre-trained AraT5v2-base model as the base model for the TANL framework. The best-performing muNERa model achieves 91.07% and 90.26% for the F-1 scores on the test sets for the nested and flat subtasks, respectively.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.102
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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858–866
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.102
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.102
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Nouf Alotaibi, Haneen Alhomoud, Hanan Murayshid, Waad Alshammari, Nouf Alshalawi, and Sakhar Alkhereyf. 2024. muNERa at WojoodNER 2024: Multi-tasking NER Approach. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 858–866, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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muNERa at WojoodNER 2024: Multi-tasking NER Approach (Alotaibi et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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