Wojood - A corpus for nested Arabic Named Entity Recognition

Full Official Name: Wojood - A corpus for nested Arabic Named Entity Recognition
Submission date: Sept. 27, 2022, 4:54 p.m.

Wojood consists of about 550,000 tokens (Modern Standard Arabic and dialect) that are manually annotated with 21 entity types (person, group of people, occupation, organization, geopolitical entity, location, facility, event, date, time, language, website, law, product, cardinal number, ordinal number, percent, quantity, unit, money, currency). It covers multiple domains (Media, History, Culture, Health, Finance, ICT, Law, Elections, Politics, Migration, Terrorism, social media) and was annotated with nested entities. The corpus contains about 75K entities and 22.5% of which are nested. The corpus was annotated using the IOB2 tagging scheme and is available in CSV format.

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