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

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, Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition. In: Dan Roth and Antal van den Bosch (eds.), Proceedings of CoNLL-2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002, pp. 155-158. [ps] [ps.gz] [pdf] [bibtex]
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