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arXiv cs.CL
October 26th, 2026 at 4:00 AM

A Guideline-Augmented Multi-Agent Framework for Schema-as-Code Biomedical Named Entity Recognition

arXiv:2610.02970v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential for biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) through instruction following and in-context learning. However, existing LLM-based BioNER methods still face two key limitations. First, retrieved demonstrations and external biomedical knowledge provide limited support for dataset-specific annotation semantics, leaving entity boundaries, type scopes, and annotation conventions ambiguous. Second, free-form generation lacks sufficient structural control, often leading to invalid formats, hallucinated mentions, duplicated entities, and boundary errors. To address these limitations, we propose GAMA, a guideline-augmented multi-agent framework for schema-as-code BioNER. GAMA first induces candidate annotation rules from labeled training instances and verifies them against annotated data to construct reliable dataset-specific guideline memory. Guided by these verified rules, a planning component generates ranked span-type hypotheses with rationales, and a coding component converts them into schema-constrained entity objects. A verification module then checks span grounding, type validity, and structural compliance, and performs dual-loop refinement to correct invalid or low-confidence predictions. Experiments on three widely used BioNER datasets using two different LLMs demonstrate the effectiveness of GAMA, achieving the best performance in four out of six LLM-dataset combinations. Ablation studies further validate the contributions of its key components.

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Canonical link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02970