HUMAID-NER is the first named entity recognition dataset built on the HumAID benchmark, comprising 60,000 English disaster tweets with approximately 175,000 labeled entity spans across ten operationally motivated entity types. The dataset was created using a reproducible three‑stage hybrid pipeline that combines a spaCy transformer model, disaster‑domain EntityRuler patterns, and structured regular expressions with priority‑based overlap resolution. A joint multitask learning framework using a shared RoBERTa‑large encoder and homoscedastic uncertainty weighting achieves an NER span micro‑F1 of 0.841 and classification macro‑F1 of 0.761, and the authors provide a real‑time web dashboard, dataset, models, and pipeline code for reproducibility.
Rapid extraction of structured information from social media is important for humanitarian response, yet existing disaster tweet resources mainly provide document-level category labels without span-le...
This thesis explores how to select and adapt NLP models for global health literature when annotated data and computational resources are scarce. It compares skip‑gram word2vec models trained on increasingly large specialized corpora with BioWordVec for semantic tag discovery, finding that larger coverage does not always yield more useful domain associations. The study also evaluates convolutional spaCy models versus a RoBERTa transformer for named entity recognition, noting a trade‑off between higher F1 scores and longer inference time, and investigates MiniLM few‑shot versus BART‑MNLI zero‑shot classification for multi‑label topic classification, highlighting practical constraints of inference cost. "whyItMatters":"The work provides empirical guidance on balancing model accuracy and resource demands for building knowledge systems in low‑resource global health settings."
arXiv:2607. 15380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electronic health records combine free-text clinical narratives with structured measurements such as vital signs, laboratory values, and comorbidities.
The paper introduces a weakly supervised framework for extracting dataset mentions from forced displacement and Fragile, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) documents. It uses a lightweight model trained on general research literature to generate candidate mentions, which are then refined by a large language model that validates or rejects them and corrects boundaries. The refined annotations are augmented with synthetic and contrastive examples to fine‑tune the model, achieving 74.1% precision and 70.5% recall on a benchmark of 1,706 passages, with higher precision (89.5%) on passages that contain dataset references.
arXiv:2512.18225v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents an applied AI pipeline for real-time geolocation from noisy microblog streams, unifying statistical hashtag segmentation, part-...
The paper introduces a two‑stage training framework that combines Supervised Fine‑Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to improve multimodal disaster severity assessment. It creates two datasets—ReasoningSet for validated rationales and PreferenceSet for paired rationales—using a single Human‑in‑the‑Loop workflow. Experiments on InternVL‑3‑8B and LLaVA‑1.5‑7B show that SFT boosts classification accuracy and Macro‑F1, while DPO further enhances interpretability and alignment with human judgment.
The paper introduces a configurable semantic chunking framework for biomedical information extraction in retrieval‑augmented generation systems. It replaces the fixed‑size chunking stage of BioMedRAG with entity‑preserving windows, trigger‑centered chunking, proposition‑first extraction, tiered trigger prioritization, and hierarchical relation resolution, while keeping the rest of the pipeline unchanged. Experiments on relation extraction benchmarks (GM‑CIHT, DDI, ChemProt) and adverse event classification (ADE) show that the hybrid configuration boosts performance on datasets with explicit relation cues, achieving 82.6% F1 on GM‑CIHT compared to 74.2% with the baseline.
Event analysis is an essential and fundamental direction of information extraction, involving various event-centric tasks at different granularity of documents. While large language models (LLMs) have preliminarily achieved promising performance in part of these tasks individually, their capability in event analysis still lacks comprehensive understanding due to restricted document granularity, task designs, and data source of existing benchmarks.
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to annotate datasets for training smaller, task‑specialized models such as named entity recognition (NER). However, current fine‑tuning processes ignore the annotation noise introduced by LLMs, leading to degraded performance, and existing noise‑robust losses fail to handle the heterogeneous nature of NER noise (e.g., missing mentions vs. type errors). The authors propose error‑type‑aware loss reweighting, which applies separate reweighting rules for different erroneous token types, improving F1 scores by 0.8–2.0 percentage points on average and up to 4.6 points on Wikigold at 24.1% noise.
arXiv:2512. 06227v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world indicators play an important role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as life events for mental health analysis and risky behaviours for online safety, yet labelling such information is often costly and/or difficult due to its multi-label and dynamic nature.
arXiv:2608. 08636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific named entity recognition (SciNER) plays a crucial role in information extraction and knowledge discovery from scientific texts.
arXiv:2606. 08376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed across socially consequential domains, reports of AI-related harms and failures have grown in frequency and diversity.