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

EFErik F. Tjong Kim Sang

University of Antwerp

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Abstract

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.

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  • Computer science
  • Natural language processing
  • Task (project management)
  • Entity linking
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Named-entity recognition
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