This is the repository for the LREC-COLING 2024 paper CoNLL#: Fine-grained Error Analysis and a Corrected Test Set for CoNLL-03 English.
We are in the process of releasing the data.
Please email lignos at brandeis dot edu with any questions.
@inproceedings{rueda-etal-2024-conll-fine,
title = "{C}o{NLL}{\#}: Fine-grained Error Analysis and a Corrected Test Set for {C}o{NLL}-03 {E}nglish",
author = "Rueda, Andrew and
Alvarez-Mellado, Elena and
Lignos, Constantine",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italy",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.330",
pages = "3718--3728",
abstract = "Modern named entity recognition systems have steadily improved performance in the age of larger and more powerful neural models. However, over the past several years, the state-of-the-art has seemingly hit another plateau on the benchmark CoNLL-03 English dataset. In this paper, we perform a deep dive into the test outputs of the highest-performing NER models, conducting a fine-grained evaluation of their performance by introducing new document-level annotations on the test set. We go beyond F1 scores by categorizing errors in order to interpret the true state of the art for NER and guide future work. We review previous attempts at correcting the various flaws of the test set and introduce CoNLL{\#}, a new corrected version of the test set that addresses its systematic and most prevalent errors, allowing for low-noise, interpretable error analysis.",
}