Examples from CoNLL 2002 shared task: NER.

This collection contains examples of data introduced for the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2002 shared task on Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition.

The data involves documents in Spanish and Dutch annotated for mentions of four types of names entities: person (PER), organization (ORG), location (LOC) and miscellaneous (MISC).

A detailed description and the full source data is freely available from the shared task website:

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

The examples contained in this directory have been converted with the script conll02tostandoff.py distributed with brat.

For copyright and license information, please see the original source of the data.
