Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition
<|reference_start|>Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{sang2002introduction,
    title={Introduction to the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named
  Entity Recognition},
    author={Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang},
    journal={Dan Roth and Antal van den Bosch (eds.), Proceedings of
  CoNLL-2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002, pp. 155-158},
    year={2002},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0209010},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}