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The Second Cross-Lingual Challenge on Recognition, Normalization, Classification, and Linking of Named Entities across Slavic Languages

2019-08-01WS 2019Unverified0· sign in to hype

Jakub Piskorski, Laska Laskova, Micha{\l} Marci{\'n}czuk, Lidia Pivovarova, Pavel P{\v{r}}ib{\'a}{\v{n}}, Josef Steinberger, Roman Yangarber

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We describe the Second Multilingual Named Entity Challenge in Slavic languages. The task is recognizing mentions of named entities in Web documents, their normalization, and cross-lingual linking. The Challenge was organized as part of the 7th Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing Workshop, co-located with the ACL-2019 conference. Eight teams participated in the competition, which covered four languages and five entity types. Performance for the named entity recognition task reached 90\% F-measure, much higher than reported in the first edition of the Challenge. Seven teams covered all four languages, and five teams participated in the cross-lingual entity linking task. Detailed evaluation information is available on the shared task web page.

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