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

De Meulder, Fien; Sang, Erik F. Tjong Kim

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

Authors: Fien De Meulder
Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
Publication date: 1 January 2003
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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