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
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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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748–758
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.83
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.83
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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.
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WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task (Jarrar et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2023)
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