Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31038v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:15:41 GMT
• Title: Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity Recognition
• Abstract summary: Incremental Named Entity Recognition (INER) stands as a pivotal task in information extraction.<n>We propose a Type-Balanced Contextual Learning (TBCL) method, featuring a sentence-duplet learning scheme and a contextual consistency loss.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Incremental Named Entity Recognition (INER) stands as a pivotal task in information extraction, emphasizing the successive identification of new entity types within unstructured text. Faced with the continuous influx of entity types, INER grapples with two significant challenges: the widespread issue of catastrophic forgetting and the unique shift issue of the non-entity type semantics. While pseudo-labeling-based INER methods have proven effective in addressing these challenges, a previously overlooked issue arises: the biased context problem. Our analysis shows that, in new sentences, the contextual associations of tokens representing old entity types exhibit a significantly stronger bias towards new entity types compared to their contexts in old sentences. This tendency intensifies the degradation of old knowledge while promoting the overfitting of new knowledge. To solve this biased context, we propose a Type-Balanced Contextual Learning (TBCL) method, featuring a sentence-duplet learning scheme and a contextual consistency loss. This approach offers a fresh perspective for INER through context analysis. Extensive experiments across ten INER settings on three highly recognized datasets showcase the efficacy of our TBCL method, highlighting its proficiency in resolving the biased context issue inherent in pseudo-labeling based INER approaches.

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