We present WojoodNER-2023, the first Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task. The primary focus of WojoodNER-2023 is on Arabic NER, offering 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 teams achieved F1 scores of 91.96 and 93.73 in FlatNER and NestedNER, respectively.
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@article{arxiv.2310.16153,
title = {WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task},
author = {Mustafa Jarrar and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and Mohammed Khalilia and Bashar Talafha and AbdelRahim Elmadany and Nagham Hamad and Alaa' Omar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16153},
year = {2023}
}