Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 shared task: language-independent named entity recognition

  • Authors:
  • Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang;Fien De Meulder

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Antwerp;University of Antwerp

  • Venue:
  • CONLL '03 Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We describe the CoNLL-2003 shared task: language-independent named entity recognition. We give background information on the data sets (English and German) and the evaluation method, present a general overview of the systems that have taken part in the task and discuss their performance.