%0 Journal Article
%T Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition
%A Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
%A Fien De Meulder
%J Computer Science
%D 2003
%I arXiv
%X We describe the CoNLL-2003 shared task: language-independent named entity recognition. We give background information on the data sets (English and German) and the evaluation method, present a general overview of the systems that have taken part in the task and discuss their performance.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0306050v1