Introducing RONEC -- the Romanian Named Entity Corpus

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We present RONEC - the Named Entity Corpus for the Romanian language.

• The corpus contains over 26000 entities in ~5000 annotated sentences, belonging to 16 distinct classes.
• The sentences have been extracted from a copy-right free newspaper, covering several styles.
• This corpus represents the first initiative in the Romanian language space specifically targeted for named entity recognition.