@InProceedings{piskorski-EtAl:2017:BSNLP,
  author    = {Piskorski, Jakub  and  Pivovarova, Lidia  and  \v{S}najder, Jan  and  Steinberger, Josef  and  Yangarber, Roman},
  title     = {The First Cross-Lingual Challenge on Recognition, Normalization, and Matching of Named Entities in Slavic Languages},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {76--85},
  abstract  = {This paper describes the outcomes of the first challenge on multilingual named
	entity recognition that aimed at recognizing mentions of named entities in web
	documents in Slavic languages, their normalization/lemmatization, and
	cross-language matching. It was organised in the context of the 6th
	Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing Workshop, co-located with the EACL
	2017 conference. Although eleven teams signed up for the evaluation, due to the
	complexity of the task(s) and short time available for elaborating a solution,
	only two teams submitted results on time. The reported evaluation figures
	reflect the relatively higher level of complexity of named entity-related tasks
	in the context of processing texts in Slavic languages. Since the duration of
	the challenge goes beyond the date of the publication of this paper and updated
	picture of the participating systems and their corresponding performance can be
	found on the web page of the challenge.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1412}
}