FiNER, GliNER, and Smolagents in Financial Named Entity Recognition

Tinier, Shinier, and Readier to Spot the Cash: Ongoing Adventures in Financial NER

With the recent announcement of ModernBert, I've had revisiting my previous work on Financial Named Entity Recognition on my task list for a long time. Data labeling is a manual, boring, and expensive task, so financial companies have been investing heavily in automated data labeling solutions for a while now. However, none of these are perfect, i.e., a…