Wikigold dataset
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wikigold.conll.txt is a manually annotated collection of Wikipedia text,
presented in:

- Dominic Balasuriya and Nicky Ringland and Joel Nothman and Tara Murphy and
James R. Curran (2009), in Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The People's
Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
(http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3302).


The data is already in CONLL format.  It was originally downloaded from:
http://downloads.schwa.org/wikiner/wikigold.conll.txt

The file wikigold.conll.txt can now be found at:

https://figshare.com/articles/Learning_multilingual_named_entity_recognition_from_Wikipedia/5462500

Attribution
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This dataset was presented in the following two publications:

[1] Balasuriya, Dominic, et al. "Named entity recognition in wikipedia."
    Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP:
    Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources. Association for
    Computational Linguistics, 2009.

[2] Nothman, Joel, et al. "Learning multilingual named entity recognition
    from Wikipedia." Artificial Intelligence 194 (2013): 151-175

License
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wikigold.conll.txt is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. To view this license, visit
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


