Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition

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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.

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang · 2002

Related benchmarks

Task	Dataset	Result
Named Entity Recognition	CoNLL English 2003 (test)	F1 Score88.6	135
Named Entity Recognition	CoNLL Spanish NER 2002 (test)	F1 Score81.4	98
Named Entity Recognition	CoNLL Dutch 2002 (test)	F1 Score77.1	87
Named Entity Recognition	CoNLL German 2003 (test)	F1 Score72.4	78