Sample CoNLL 2002 shared task training set documents.

A set of documents drawn from the freely available data of the
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2002
shared task Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition.

Originals available from

    http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2002/ner/

Dataset descriptions from the CoNLL 2002 shared task website:

    The Spanish data is a collection of news wire articles made
    available by the Spanish EFE News Agency. The articles are from
    May 2000. The annotation was carried out by the TALP Research
    Center of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and the
    Center of Language and Computation (CLiC) of the University of
    Barcelona (UB), and funded by the European Commission through the
    NAMIC project (IST-1999-12392).

    The Dutch data consist of four editions of the Belgian newspaper
    "De Morgen" of 2000 (June 2, July 1, August 1 and September
    1). The data was annotated as a part of the Atranos project at the
    University of Antwerp.

Converted into standoff using the script conll02tostandoff.py
distributed with brat.

Note that this is a subset of the training sets only. To access the full
data, please download it from the shared task website:

    http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2002/ner/
