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ماساخانر: التعرف على الكيان المسمى للغات الأفريقية
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الملخص نتخذ خطوة نحو معالجة تمثيل القارة الأفريقية في أبحاث NLP من خلال جلب مختلف أصحاب المصلحة من أصحاب المصلحة في إنشاء بيانات كبيرة متاحة للجمهور وعالية الجودة للتعرف على الكيان المسمى (NER) في عشرة لغات أفريقية.إننا نقوم بالتفصيل خصائص هذه اللغات لمساعدة الباحثين والممارسين على فهم التحديات التي يفرضونها على مهام NER.نقوم بتحليل مجموعات البيانات لدينا وإجراء تقييم تجريبي واسع النطاق للطرق الحكومية في جميع إعدادات التعلم الإشراف والنقل.أخيرا، نطلق سراح البيانات والرمز والنماذج لإلهام البحوث المستقبلية على الأفريقية NLP.1
Abstract We take a step towards addressing the under- representation of the African continent in NLP research by bringing together different stakeholders to create the first large, publicly available, high-quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages. We detail the characteristics of these languages to help researchers and practitioners better understand the challenges they pose for NER tasks. We analyze our datasets and conduct an extensive empirical evaluation of state- of-the-art methods across both supervised and transfer learning settings. Finally, we release the data, code, and models to inspire future research on African NLP.1
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