CLEF-HIPE-2020 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

CLEF-HIPE-2020 (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities) is a evaluation campaign on named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and English, which was organized in the context of the impresso project and run as a CLEF 2020 Evaluation Lab. Data consists of manually annotated historical newspapers in French, German and English.

For more information, please refer to:

the CLEF-HIPE-2020 website;

the CLEF-HIPE-2020-eval repository, for the necessary material to replicate the results of the shared task;

the CLEF-HIPE-2020 poster presented at CLEF 2019 in Lugano, Switzerland;

the CLEF-HIPE-2020 participation guidelines (v1.1);

the impresso Named Entity Annotation Guidelines (v2.2.0);

the CLEF-HIPE-2020 Extended Overview paper (bibtex below);

the participant team CEUR working note papers;

the workshop presentation video records;

A second edition of HIPE is organised in 2022: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2022/

Please cite this paper if you are using the datasets or find the shared task results relevant to your research:

@inproceedings{ehrmann_extended_2020,
title = {Extended {Overview} of {CLEF HIPE} 2020: {Named Entity Processing} on {Historical Newspapers}},
booktitle = {{CLEF 2020 Working Notes}. {Working Notes} of {CLEF} 2020 - {Conference} and {Labs} of the {Evaluation Forum}},
author = {Ehrmann, Maud and Romanello, Matteo and Fl{\"u}ckiger, Alex and Clematide, Simon},
editor = {Cappellato, Linda and Eickhoff, Carsten and Ferro, Nicola and N{\'e}v{\'e}ol, Aur{\'e}lie},
year = {2020},
volume = {2696},
pages = {38},
publisher = {{CEUR-WS}},
address = {{Thessaloniki, Greece}},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4117566},
url = {https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/281054},
}