---
annotations_creators:
- machine-generated
language_creators:
- machine-generated
languages:
- de
- en
- es
- fr
- it
- nl
- pl
- pt
- ru
licenses:
- cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
pretty_name: wikineural-dataset
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- structure-prediction
task_ids:
- named-entity-recognition
---

## Model Description

- **Summary:** mBERT model fine-tuned on the recently-introduced WikiNEuRal dataset for Multilingual NER. 
- **Official Repository:** [https://github.com/Babelscape/wikineural](https://github.com/Babelscape/wikineural)
- **Paper:** [https://aclanthology.org/wikineural](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.215/)

## Licensing Information

Contents of this repository are restricted to only non-commercial research purposes under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Copyright of the dataset contents belongs to the original copyright holders.

## Citation Information

```bibtex
@inproceedings{tedeschi-etal-2021-wikineural-combined,
    title = "{W}iki{NE}u{R}al: {C}ombined Neural and Knowledge-based Silver Data Creation for Multilingual {NER}",
    author = "Tedeschi, Simone  and
      Maiorca, Valentino  and
      Campolungo, Niccol{\`o}  and
      Cecconi, Francesco  and
      Navigli, Roberto",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.215",
    pages = "2521--2533",
    abstract = "Multilingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key intermediate task which is needed in many areas of NLP. In this paper, we address the well-known issue of data scarcity in NER, especially relevant when moving to a multilingual scenario, and go beyond current approaches to the creation of multilingual silver data for the task. We exploit the texts of Wikipedia and introduce a new methodology based on the effective combination of knowledge-based approaches and neural models, together with a novel domain adaptation technique, to produce high-quality training corpora for NER. We evaluate our datasets extensively on standard benchmarks for NER, yielding substantial improvements up to 6 span-based F1-score points over previous state-of-the-art systems for data creation.",
}
```