Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 shared task: language-independent named entity recognition

  • Authors:
  • Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Antwerp

  • Venue:
  • COLING-02 proceedings of the 6th conference on Natural language learning - Volume 20
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We describe the CoNLL-2002 shared task: language-independent named entity recognition. We give background information on the data sets and the evaluation method, present a general overview of the systems that have taken part in the task and discuss their performance.