Comparing Annotated Datasets for Named Entity Recognition in English Literature

Rositsa Ivanova, Marieke van Erp, Sabrina Kirrane


Abstract
The growing interest in named entity recognition (NER) in various domains has led to the creation of different benchmark datasets, often with slightly different annotation guidelines. To better understand the different NER benchmark datasets for the domain of English literature and their impact on the evaluation of NER tools, we analyse two existing annotated datasets and create two additional gold standard datasets. Following on from this, we evaluate the performance of two NER tools, one domain-specific and one general-purpose NER tool, using the four gold standards, and analyse the sources for the differences in the measured performance. Our results show that the performance of the two tools varies significantly depending on the gold standard used for the individual evaluations.
Anthology ID:
2022.lrec-1.404
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
3788–3797
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.404
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Cite (ACL):
Rositsa Ivanova, Marieke van Erp, and Sabrina Kirrane. 2022. Comparing Annotated Datasets for Named Entity Recognition in English Literature. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3788–3797, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
Comparing Annotated Datasets for Named Entity Recognition in English Literature (Ivanova et al., LREC 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.404.pdf
Code
 therosko/annotated_datasets_en_comparisson
Data
CoNLL 2003CoNLL++LitBank