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title = "A Study of Errors in the Output of Large Language Models for Domain-Specific Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition",
author = "Volkanovska, Elena",
editor = "Tu, Ngoc Duyen Tanja and
Brunner, Annelen and
Lang, Christian",
journal = "Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics",
volume = "38",
number = "2",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
publisher = "German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.jlcl-2.3/",
doi = "10.21248/jlcl.38.2025.281",
pages = "31--42",
abstract = "This paper proposes an error classification framework for a comprehensive analysis of the output that large language models (LLMs) generate in a few-shot named entity recognition (NER) task in a specialised domain. The framework should be seen as an exploratory analysis complementary to established performance metrics for NER classifiers, such as F1 score, as it accounts for outcomes possible in a few-shot, LLM-based NER task. By categorising and assessing incorrect named entity predictions quantitatively, the paper shows how the proposed error classification could support a deeper cross-model and cross-prompt performance comparison, alongside a roadmap for a guided qualitative error analysis."
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Study of Errors in the Output of Large Language Models for Domain-Specific Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/2025.jlcl-2.3/) (Volkanovska, JLCL 2025)
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