WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task
Mustafa Jarrar, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mohammed Khalilia, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Nagham Hamad, Alaa’ Omar
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 a 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 team achieved F1 score of 91.96 and 93.73 in FlatNER and NestedNER respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.arabicnlp-1.83
- Volume:
- Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore (Hybrid)
- Editors:
- Hassan Sawaf, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Nizar Habash, Salam Khalifa, Amr Keleg, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Khalil Mrini, Rawan Almatham
- Venues:
- ArabicNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 748–758
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.83
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.83
- Cite (ACL):
- Mustafa Jarrar, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mohammed Khalilia, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Nagham Hamad, and Alaa’ Omar. 2023. WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. In Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023, pages 748–758, Singapore (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task (Jarrar et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2023.arabicnlp-1.83.pdf