Exploring prompts to elicit memorization in masked language model-based named entity recognition

Yuxi Xia; Anastasiia Sedova; Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo; Vasiliki Kougia; Lisa Nußbaumer; Benjamin Roth

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0330877

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Exploring prompts to elicit memorization in masked language model-based named entity recognition

Yuxi Xia ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yuxi.xia@univie.ac.at

Affiliations Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, Vienna, Austria

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5879-7209

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Anastasiia Sedova,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, Vienna, Austria
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Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, Vienna, Austria
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Vasiliki Kougia,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, Vienna, Austria
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Lisa Nußbaumer,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Benjamin Roth

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Exploring prompts to elicit memorization in masked language model-based named entity recognition

Yuxi Xia,
Anastasiia Sedova,
Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo,
Vasiliki Kougia,
Lisa Nußbaumer,
Benjamin Roth

Published: September 15, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330877

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