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most citedMasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

3 citations · 5 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.IR2026

IntentTune: Using user demand and personalization to resolve "unknown" query intents for e-commerce search

Rachith Aiyappa, Ishita Khan, Chester Palen-Michel +4

Understanding user intent is fundamental to delivering relevant search results in e-commerce. However, substantial fraction of real-world queries are under-specified (e.g., "watch"…

cs.CL2025

Comparing Approaches to Automatic Summarization in Less-Resourced Languages

Chester Palen-Michel, Constantine Lignos

Automatic text summarization has achieved high performance in high-resourced languages like English, but comparatively less attention has been given to summarization in less-resour…

cs.CL2024

OpenNER 1.0: Standardized Open-Access Named Entity Recognition Datasets in 50+ Languages

Chester Palen-Michel, Maxwell Pickering, Maya Kruse +2

We present OpenNER 1.0, a standardized collection of openly-available named entity recognition (NER) datasets. OpenNER contains 36 NER corpora that span 52 languages, human-annotat…

cs.CL20242 cited

Investigating LLM Applications in E-Commerce

Chester Palen-Michel, Ruixiang Wang, Yipeng Zhang +3

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing in various applications especially in e-commerce. One crucial step before the applicati…

cs.CL2024

QueryNER: Segmentation of E-commerce Queries

Chester Palen-Michel, Lizzie Liang, Zhe Wu +1

We present QueryNER, a manually-annotated dataset and accompanying model for e-commerce query segmentation. Prior work in sequence labeling for e-commerce has largely addressed asp…

cs.CL20223 cited

MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42

African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…