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configs:
  - config_name: en
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/en/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/en/test.parquet
  - config_name: fr
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/fr/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/fr/test.parquet
  - config_name: es
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/es/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/es/test.parquet
  - config_name: de
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/de/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/de/test.parquet
  - config_name: it
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/it/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/it/test.parquet
  - config_name: ru
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/ru/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/ru/test.parquet
  - config_name: pl
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/pl/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/pl/test.parquet
  - config_name: pt
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/pt/train.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/pt/test.parquet

WikiNER is a multilingual silver-standard annotated NER dataset. It consists in a late-2010 snapshot of Wikipedia in nine languages. Hyperlinks referring to persons, locations or organizations were automatically annotated. image/png

@Article{nothman2012:artint:wikiner,
  author = {Joel Nothman and Nicky Ringland and Will Radford and Tara Murphy and James R. Curran},
  title = {Learning multilingual named entity recognition from {Wikipedia}},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  volume = {194},
  pages = {151--175},
  year = {2012},
  doi = {10.1016/j.artint.2012.03.006},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2012.03.006}
}