AQMAR Arabic Wikipedia Named Entity Corpus & Tagger

These resources were developed by Behrang Mohit, Nathan Schneider, Rishav Bhowmick, Kemal Oflazer, and Noah Smith as part of the AQMAR project.

Corpus

This is a 74,000-token corpus of 28 Arabic Wikipedia articles hand-annotated for named entities.

AQMAR_Arabic_NER_corpus-1.0.zip (README, VERSION, LICENSE)

Tagger

This is a tagger for Arabic text, implemented in Java. It includes a pretrained named entity model.

The tagger is available for download on github.

Further Reading

Please cite the following if you write any papers involving the use of the data above:

Recall-Oriented Learning of Named Entities in Arabic Wikipedia (paper, supplement)
Behrang Mohit, Nathan Schneider, Rishav Bhowmick, Kemal Oflazer, and Noah A. Smith.
In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, April 2012.

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by Qatar National Research Fund grant NPRP 08-485-1-083.

Contact

Please e-mail behrang [strudel] cmu.edu or nschneid [strudel] cs.cmu.edu with questions.