NameTag 3: A Tool and a Service for Multilingual/Multitagset NER

Jana Straková, Milan Straka


Abstract
We introduce NameTag 3, an open-source tool and cloud-based web service for multilingual, multidataset, and multitagset named entity recognition (NER), supporting both flat and nested entities. NameTag 3 achieves state-of-the-art results on 21 test datasets in 15 languages and remains competitive on the rest, even against larger models. It is available as a command-line tool and as a cloud-based service, enabling use without local installation. NameTag 3 web service currently provides flat NER for 17 languages, trained on 21 corpora and three NE tagsets, all powered by a single 355M-parameter fine-tuned model; and nested NER for Czech, powered by a 126M fine-tuned model. The source code is licensed under open-source MPL 2.0, while the models are distributed under non-commercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Documentation is available at https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/nametag, source code at https://github.com/ufal/nametag3, and trained models via https://lindat.cz. The REST service and the web application can be found at https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/nametag/. A demonstration video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gaGnP0IV8A.
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, Tao Yu
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Jana Straková and Milan Straka. 2025. NameTag 3: A Tool and a Service for Multilingual/Multitagset NER. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 31–39, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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