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For some domain-specific corpora, the text descriptions exhibit limited standardization, and some entity structures have entity nesting. The existing entity recognition methods have problems such as word matching noise interference and difficulty in distinguishing different entity labels for the same character in sequence label prediction. This paper proposes a span-based feature reuse stacked bidirectional long short term memory network (BiLSTM) nested named entity recognition (SFRSN) model, which transforms the entity recognition of sequence prediction into the problem of entity span suffix category classification. Firstly, character feature embedding is generated through bidirectional encoder representation of transformers (BERT). Secondly, a feature reuse stacked BiLSTM is proposed to obtain deep context features while alleviating the problem of deep network degradation. Thirdly, the span feature is obtained through the dilated convolution neural network (DCNN), and at the same time, a single-tail selection function is introduced to obtain the classification feature of the entity span suffix, with the aim of reducing the training parameters. Fourthly, a global feature gated attention mechanism is proposed, integrating span features and span suffix classification features to achieve span suffix classification. The experimental results on four Chinese-specific domain datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach: SFRSN achieves micro-F1 scores of 83.34% on ontonotes, 73.27% on weibo, 96.90% on resume, and 86.77% on the supply chain management dataset. This represents a maximum improvement of 1.55%, 4.94%, 2.48%, and 3.47% over state-of-the-art baselines, respectively. 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