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title = "Overview of the Named Entity Recognition Task at {E}va{L}atin 2026",
author = "Boano, Valeria Irene and
Litta, Eleonora and
Romanello, Matteo",
editor = "Sprugnoli, Rachele and
Passarotti, Marco",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages ({LT}4{HALA} 2026) @ {LREC} 2026",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.21/",
doi = "10.63317/2yxsiapdo7ux",
pages = "226--233",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Overview of the Named Entity Recognition Task at EvaLatin 2026](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.21/) (Boano et al., LT4HALA 2026)
ACL
- Valeria Irene Boano, Eleonora Litta, and Matteo Romanello. 2026. Overview of the Named Entity Recognition Task at EvaLatin 2026. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 226–233, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).