English

Cross-lingual Named Entity Corpus for Slavic Languages

Computation and Language 2024-04-09 v2 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper presents a corpus manually annotated with named entities for six Slavic languages - Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, Russian, and Ukrainian. This work is the result of a series of shared tasks, conducted in 2017-2023 as a part of the Workshops on Slavic Natural Language Processing. The corpus consists of 5 017 documents on seven topics. The documents are annotated with five classes of named entities. Each entity is described by a category, a lemma, and a unique cross-lingual identifier. We provide two train-tune dataset splits - single topic out and cross topics. For each split, we set benchmarks using a transformer-based neural network architecture with the pre-trained multilingual models - XLM-RoBERTa-large for named entity mention recognition and categorization, and mT5-large for named entity lemmatization and linking.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.00482,
  title  = {Cross-lingual Named Entity Corpus for Slavic Languages},
  author = {Jakub Piskorski and Michał Marcińczuk and Roman Yangarber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00482},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Published in LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:39:17.416Z