CoNLL-2003 Benchmark Task

The CoNLL-2003 Benchmark Task is a NER benchmark task that is a Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition Task.

• Context:
  • It uses British newswire corpus in multiple languages (Spanish, Dutch, English, German).
  • It uses 4 entities: Person, Location, Organization, Misc.
• See: CoNLL-2002 Benchmark Task.

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References

2003

• (Florian et al., 2003) ⇒ Radu Florian, Abe Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing and Tong Zhang. (2003). “Named Entity Recognition through Classifier Combination.” In: Proceedings of CoNLL-2003.
  • Performed well on the CoNLL-2003 Benchmark Task.
  • http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2003/ner/#FIJZ03

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