metadata

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: id
      dtype: string
    - name: words
      sequence: string
    - name: ner_tags
      sequence:
        class_label:
          names:
            '0': O
            '1': B-LOC
            '2': I-LOC
            '3': B-MISC
            '4': I-MISC
            '5': B-ORG
            '6': I-ORG
            '7': B-PER
            '8': I-PER
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 535938.32916893
      num_examples: 1472
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 134348.67083107008
      num_examples: 369
  download_size: 184127
  dataset_size: 670287
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*

Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia

WikiGold is a manually annotated collection of Wikipedia text.

Structure

Number of labels: 9

['O', 'B-LOC', 'I-LOC', 'B-MISC', 'I-MISC', 'B-ORG', 'I-ORG', 'B-PER', 'I-PER']

Train set

Number of sentences in the train set: 1472

Label count in train set:

Label	Count	Percentage (%)
O	26086	83.649190
I-ORG	1470	4.713805
I-PER	1303	4.178291
I-LOC	1175	3.767837
I-MISC	1151	3.690877

Test set

Number of sentences in the test set: 369

Label count in test set:

Label	Count	Percentage (%)
O	6635	83.281034
I-ORG	488	6.125267
I-PER	331	4.154638
I-LOC	272	3.414083
I-MISC	241	3.024978

Citation

 Dominic Balasuriya, Nicky Ringland, Joel Nothman, Tara Murphy, and James R. Curran. 2009.
Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia.
In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (People’s Web), pages 10–18, Suntec, Singapore.
Association for Computational Linguistics.

License

WikiGold is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. To view this license, visit the link.