AHVE-CNER: Aligned Hanzi Visual Encoding Enhance Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Multi-Information

Xuhui Zheng, Zhiyuan Min, Bin Shi, Hao Wang


Abstract
The integration of multi-modal information, especially the graphic features of Hanzi, is crucial for improving the performance of Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. However, existing glyph-based models frequently neglect the relationship between pictorial elements and radicals. This paper presents AHVE-CNER, a model that integrates multi-source visual and phonetic information of Hanzi, while explicitly aligning pictographic features with their corresponding radicals. We propose the Gated Pangu-𝜋 Cross Transformer to effectively facilitate the integration of these multi-modal representations. By leveraging a multi-source glyph alignment strategy, AHVE-CNER demonstrates an improved capability to capture the visual and semantic nuances of Hanzi for NER tasks. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets validate that AHVE-CNER achieves superior performance compared to existing multi-modal Chinese NER methods. Additional ablation studies further confirm the effectiveness of our visual alignment module and the fusion approach.
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2025.coling-main.228
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
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COLING
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Xuhui Zheng, Zhiyuan Min, Bin Shi, and Hao Wang. 2025. AHVE-CNER: Aligned Hanzi Visual Encoding Enhance Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Multi-Information. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3391–3400, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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