Named Entity Recognition (State of the art)

MUC-6 Evaluation

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MUC-7 Evaluation

• In MUC-7, named entities were defined as proper names and quantities of interest. Person, organization, and location names were marked as well as dates, times, percentages, and monetary amounts.
• MUC-7 proceedings
• State-of-the-art results for MUC-7

CONLL-2002 Evaluation

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CONLL-2003 Evaluation

• CONLL-2003 concentrates on four types of named entities: persons, locations, organizations and names of miscellaneous entities that do not belong to the previous three groups.
• CONLL-2003 proceedings
• State-of-the-art results for CONLL-2003

General Discussion

• Doing Named Entity Recognition? Don't optimize for F₁ blog post by Christopher Manning