Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition
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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.
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- Tjong Kim Sang, E. F., & De Meulder, F.
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- Keywords
- named entity recognition, evaluation methodology, system performance comparison
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