2020

NSURL-2019 Task 7: Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Farsi

Taghizadeh, Nasrin, Borhanifard, Zeinab, GolestaniPour, Melika et al.

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NSURL-2019 Task 7 focuses on Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Farsi.

  • This task was chosen to compare different approaches to find phrases that specify Named Entities in Farsi texts, and to establish a standard testbed for future researches on this task in Farsi.
  • This paper describes the process of making training and test data, a list of participating teams (6 teams), and evaluation results of their systems.
  • The best system obtained 85.4% of F1 score based on phrase-level evaluation on seven classes of NEs including person, organization, location, date, time, money and percent.

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