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A Study of Temporal Fusion Strategies for Named Entity Recognition in Historical Texts

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Temporal fusion strategies for NER in historical texts favor late fusion mechanisms

A new arXiv preprint systematically evaluates how temporal metadata can be embedded into transformer-based NER models for historical texts, comparing absolute vs. relative temporal representations and early vs. late fusion mechanisms including cross-attention, adapters, and concatenation. Experiments on French and German historical datasets show that late fusion strategies yield more robust and temporally generalizable performance, especially on early and noisy text periods. The work addresses a narrow but underexplored challenge of diachronic NLP where entity surface forms drift across time.