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NER Retriever: Zero-Shot Named Entity Retrieval with Type-Aware Embeddings
Or Shachar, Uri Katz, Yoav Goldberg, Oren Glickman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04011 https://

NER Retriever: Zero-Shot Named Entity Retrieval with Type-Aware Embeddings
We present NER Retriever, a zero-shot retrieval framework for ad-hoc Named Entity Retrieval, a variant of Named Entity Recognition (NER), where the types of interest are not provided in advance, and a user-defined type description is used to retrieve documents mentioning entities of that type. Instead of relying on fixed schemas or fine-tuned models, our method builds on internal representations of large language models (LLMs) to embed both entity mentions and user-provided open-ended type desc…

#Secure. Or not? This is the question! :) #security #software

Not only do #Youtube's automatic AI voice-overs sound like customer-service hotline robots ... their translations aren't even correct!
Here's one of those funny "interview with a Javascript programmer / Linux user / etc." videos. It's subtitle right at the beginning mentions a "404 page" (you know, the web server "page not found" errors). The mo…