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WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task

  • Mustafa Jarrar
  • , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
  • , Mohammed Khalilia
  • , Bashar Talafha
  • , Abdel Rahim Elmadany
  • , Nagham Hamad
  • , Alaa’ Omar
  • Birzeit University
  • University of British Columbia
  • Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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Abstract

We present WojoodNER-2023, the first Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task. The primary focus of WojoodNER 2023 is on Arabic NER, offering novel NER datasets (i.e., Wojood) and the definition of subtasks designed to facilitate meaningful comparisons between different NER approaches. WojoodNER-2023 encompassed two Subtasks: FlatNER and NestedNER. A total of 45 unique teams registered for this shared task, with 11 of them actively participating in the test phase. Specifically, 11 teams participated in FlatNER, while 8 teams tackled NestedNER. The winning teams achieved F1 scores of 91.96 and 93.73 in FlatNER and NestedNER, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArabicNLP 2023 - 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Porceedings
EditorsHassan Sawaf, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Nizar Habash, Salam Khalifa, Amr Keleg, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Ahmed Abdelali, Khalil Mrini, Rawan Almatham
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages748-758
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429272
Publication statusPublished - 7 Dec 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2023 - Hybrid, Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 7 Dec 2023 → …

Publication series

NameArabicNLP 2023 - 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings

Conference

Conference1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2023
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityHybrid, Singapore
Period7/12/23 → …

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