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Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang, Fien De Meulder

cs.CLarXiv:cs/0306050

Abstract

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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