Named Entity Recognition in COVID-19 tweets with Entity Knowledge Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04001v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 02:22:26 GMT
• Title: Named Entity Recognition in COVID-19 tweets with Entity Knowledge Augmentation
• Authors: Xuankang Zhang, Jiangming Liu,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel entity knowledge augmentation approach for COVID-19.<n>Our proposed entity knowledge augmentation improves NER performance in both fully-supervised and few-shot settings.
• Score: 3.8390058921374615
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic causes severe social and economic disruption around the world, raising various subjects that are discussed over social media. Identifying pandemic-related named entities as expressed on social media is fundamental and important to understand the discussions about the pandemic. However, there is limited work on named entity recognition on this topic due to the following challenges: 1) COVID-19 texts in social media are informal and their annotations are rare and insufficient to train a robust recognition model, and 2) named entity recognition in COVID-19 requires extensive domain-specific knowledge. To address these issues, we propose a novel entity knowledge augmentation approach for COVID-19, which can also be applied in general biomedical named entity recognition in both informal text format and formal text format. Experiments carried out on the COVID-19 tweets dataset and PubMed dataset show that our proposed entity knowledge augmentation improves NER performance in both fully-supervised and few-shot settings. Our source code is publicly available: https://github.com/kkkenshi/LLM-EKA/tree/master

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