Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition
<|reference_start|>Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{sang2003introduction,
    title={Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named
  Entity Recognition},
    author={Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang and Fien De Meulder},
    journal={Proceedings of CoNLL-2003, Edmonton, Canada, 2003, pp. 142-147},
    year={2003},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0306050},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}