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WojoodNER 2024: The Second Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task

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

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Abstract

We present WojoodNER-2024, the second Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task. In WojoodNER-2024, we focus on fine-grained Arabic NER. We provided participants with a new Arabic fine-grained NER dataset called WojoodFine, annotated with subtypes of entities. WojoodNER-2024 encompassed three subtasks: (i) Closed-Track Flat Fine-Grained NER, (ii) Closed-Track Nested Fine-Grained NER, and (iii) an Open-Track NER for the Israeli War on Gaza. A total of 43 unique teams registered for this shared task. Five teams participated in the Flat Fine-Grained Subtask, among which two teams tackled the Nested Fine-Grained Subtask and one team participated in the Open-Track NER Subtask. The winning teams achieved F1 scores of 91% and 92% in the Flat Fine-Grained and Nested Fine-Grained Subtasks, respectively. The sole team in the Open-Track Subtask achieved an F1 score of 73.7%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsNizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages847-857
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761322
Publication statusPublished - 16 Aug 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 16 Aug 2024 → …

Publication series

NameArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period16/08/24 → …

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