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arxiv: 2103.11811 · v2 · pith:A4F5SCDBnew · submitted 2021-03-22 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jade Abbott , Graham Neubig , Daniel D'souza , Julia Kreutzer , Constantine Lignos , Chester Palen-Michel , Happy Buzaaba
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We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages, bringing together a variety of stakeholders. We detail characteristics of the languages to help researchers understand the challenges that these languages pose for NER. We analyze our datasets and conduct an extensive empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art methods across both supervised and transfer learning settings. We release the data, code, and models in order to inspire future research on African NLP.

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