Table 6 Ablation Study for UnionPromptNER. The variants M and N refer to using the fixed-template prompts and label-semantic prompts only, respectively. Plain refers to the original inputs and plain+N refers to replacing the fixed-template prompt with the original inputs. M+N is our UnionPromptNER method.

From: UnionPromptNER serves as a union prompting method to bridge few-shot named entity recognition

Setting

Models

Intra

Inter

OntoNotes

Bridge Text Datasets

5\(\sim\)10-shot

plain

48.32±0.31

54.32±0.54

42.17±0.79

55.27

M(\(\rho\) = 1.0)

64.44±0.38

67.82±0.53

46.67±0.45

58.34

N(\(\rho\) = 0.0)

58.10±1.29

56.31±1.67

43.48±1.05

55.57

plain+N(\(\rho\) = 0.35)

59.04±0.55

58.46±0.17

42.68±1.32

55.97

plain+N(\(\rho\) = 0.55)

60.04±0.64

61.34±0.87

42.77±0.42

56.14

plain+N(\(\rho\) = 0.75)

60.38±0.41

61.88±0.77

43.66±0.07

56.84

M+N(\(\rho\) = 0.35)

60.17±0.28

62.97±0.11

44.64±0.17

56.09

M+N(\(\rho\) = 0.55)

61.06±0.46

64.61±0.98

44.07±0.41

57.61

M+N(\(\rho\) = 0.75)

65.30±1.01

71.65±0.20

47.98±0.18

60.19