EVALITA 2011: Description and Results of the Named Entity Recognition on Transcribed Broadcast News Task
Valentina Bartalesi, Manuela Speranza, Rachele Sprugnoli · 2011
This report describes features and outcomes of the Named Entity Recognition on Transcribed Broadcast News task at EVALITA 2011. This task represented a change with respect to previous editions of the NER task within the EVALITA evaluation campaign because it was based on automatic transcription of broadcast news. Four participants took part in the task and submitted a total of 9 runs. In this paper, annotated data and evaluation measures are presented together with the results obtained by the participating systems.