Results of the WNUT16 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task

Benjamin Strauss, Bethany Toma, Alan Ritter, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Wei Xu


Abstract
This paper presents the results of the Twitter Named Entity Recognition shared task associated with W-NUT 2016: a named entity tagging task with 10 teams participating. We outline the shared task, annotation process and dataset statistics, and provide a high-level overview of the participating systems for each shared task.
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W16-3919
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT)
Month:
December
Year:
2016
Address:
Osaka, Japan
Editors:
Bo Han, Alan Ritter, Leon Derczynski, Wei Xu, Tim Baldwin
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WNUT
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Publisher:
The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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Pages:
138–144
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https://aclanthology.org/W16-3919
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Cite (ACL):
Benjamin Strauss, Bethany Toma, Alan Ritter, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, and Wei Xu. 2016. Results of the WNUT16 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT), pages 138–144, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Results of the WNUT16 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task (Strauss et al., WNUT 2016)
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https://aclanthology.org/W16-3919.pdf
Data
WNUT 2016 NER