WojoodNER 2024: The Second Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task
Mustafa Jarrar, Nagham Hamad, Mohammed A. Khalilia, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed · 2024
We present WojoodNER-2024, the second Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task.In WojoodNER-2024, we focus on fine-grained Arabic NER.We provided participants with a new Arabic fine-grained NER dataset called Wojood F ine , annotated with subtypes of entities.WojoodNER-2024 encompassed three subtasks: (i) Closed-Track Flat Fine-Grained NER, (ii) Closed-Track Nested Fine-Grained NER, and (iii) an Open-Track NER for the Israeli War on Gaza.A total of 43 unique teams registered for this shared task.Five teams participated in the Flat Fine-Grained Subtask, among which two teams tackled the Nested Fine-Grained Subtask and one team participated in the Open-Track NER Subtask.The winning teams achieved F 1 scores of 91% and 92% in the Flat Fine-Grained and Nested Fine-Grained Subtasks, respectively.The sole team in the Open-Track Subtask achieved an F 1 score of 73.7%.