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203
Tokens
203,621
51,362
46,435
English data
Training set
Development set
Test set
LOC
7140
1837
1668
MISC
3438
922
702
ORG
6321
1341
1661
PER
6600
1842
1617
German data
Training set
Development set
Test set
Articles
553
201
155
Sentences
12,705
3,068
3,160
Tokens
206,931
51,444
51,943
German data
Training set
Development set
Test set
LOC
4363
1181
1035
MISC
2288
1010
670
ORG
2427
1241
773
PER
2773
1401
1195
Table 1: Number of articles, sentences and tokens in
each data file.
Table 2: Number of named entities per data file
2.3
between August 1996 and August 1997. For the
training and development set, ten days’ worth of data
were taken from the files representing the end of August 1996. For the test set, the texts were from December 1996. The preprocessed raw data covers the
month of September 1996.
The text for the German data was taken from the
ECI Multilingual Text Corpus3 . This corpus consists
of texts in many languages. The portion of data that
was used for this task, was extracted from the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundshau. All three of
the training, development and test sets were taken
from articles written in one week at the end of August 1992. The raw data were taken from the months
of September to December 1992.
Table 1 contains an overview of the sizes of the
data files. The unannotated data contain 17 million
tokens (English) and 14 million tokens (German).
2.2
Data preprocessing