{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/sequence-to-nuggets-nested-entity-mention","title":"Sequence-to-Nuggets: Nested Entity Mention Detection via Anchor-Region Networks","arxiv_id":"1906.03783","date":"2019-06-10","proceeding":"ACL 2019 7","authors":["Hongyu Lin","Yaojie Lu","Xianpei Han","Le Sun"],"abstract":"Sequential labeling-based NER approaches restrict each word belonging to at most one entity mention, which will face a serious problem when recognizing nested entity mentions. In this paper, we propose to resolve this problem by modeling and leveraging the head-driven phrase structures of entity mentions, i.e., although a mention can nest other mentions, they will not share the same head word. Specifically, we propose Anchor-Region Networks (ARNs), a sequence-to-nuggets architecture for nested mention detection. ARNs first identify anchor words (i.e., possible head words) of all mentions, and then recognize the mention boundaries for each anchor word by exploiting regular phrase structures. Furthermore, we also design Bag Loss, an objective function which can train ARNs in an end-to-end manner without using any anchor word annotation. Experiments show that ARNs achieve the state-of-the-art performance on three standard nested entity mention detection benchmarks.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03783v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.03783v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"sequence-to-nuggets-nested-entity-mention","repo_url":"https://github.com/sanmusunrise/ARNs","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"cg","task_name":"NER"},{"task_slug":"named-entity-recognition-ner","task_name":"Named Entity Recognition (NER)"},{"task_slug":"nested-mention-recognition","task_name":"Nested Mention Recognition"},{"task_slug":"nested-named-entity-recognition","task_name":"Nested Named Entity Recognition"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/named-entity-recognition-on-ace-2005","task":"Named Entity Recognition (NER)","dataset":"ACE 2005","model":"Anchor-Region Networks","rank_in_archive_order":17,"of":20,"metrics":{"F1":"74.9"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/named-entity-recognition-on-genia","task":"Named Entity Recognition (NER)","dataset":"GENIA","model":"Anchor-Region Networks","rank_in_archive_order":10,"of":14,"metrics":{"F1":"74.8"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/nested-mention-recognition-on-ace-2005","task":"Nested Mention Recognition","dataset":"ACE 2005","model":"Anchor-Region Networks","rank_in_archive_order":7,"of":10,"metrics":{"F1":"74.9"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/nested-named-entity-recognition-on-ace-2005","task":"Nested Named Entity Recognition","dataset":"ACE 2005","model":"Anchor-Region Networks","rank_in_archive_order":21,"of":25,"metrics":{"F1":"75.9"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/nested-named-entity-recognition-on-genia","task":"Nested Named Entity Recognition","dataset":"GENIA","model":"Anchor-Region Networks","rank_in_archive_order":23,"of":26,"metrics":{"F1":"74.8"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1906.03783","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}