Dataset Card for "Few-NERD"

Dataset Summary

This script is for loading the Few-NERD dataset from https://ningding97.github.io/fewnerd/ .

Few-NERD is a large-scale, fine-grained manually annotated named entity recognition dataset, which contains 8 coarse-grained types, 66 fine-grained types, 188,200 sentences, 491,711 entities, and 4,601,223 tokens. Three benchmark tasks are built, one is supervised (Few-NERD (SUP)) and the other two are few-shot (Few-NERD (INTRA) and Few-NERD (INTER)).

NER tags use the IO tagging scheme. The original data uses a 2-column CoNLL-style format, with empty lines to separate sentences. DOCSTART information is not provided since the sentences are randomly ordered.

For more details see https://ningding97.github.io/fewnerd/ and https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.248/ .

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

• Tasks: Named Entity Recognition, Few-shot NER
• Leaderboards:
  • https://ningding97.github.io/fewnerd/
  • named-entity-recognition: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/named-entity-recognition-on-few-nerd-sup
  • other-few-shot-ner: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/few-shot-ner-on-few-nerd-intra
  • other-few-shot-ner: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/few-shot-ner-on-few-nerd-inter

Languages

English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

• Size of downloaded dataset files:

  • super : 14.6 MB
  • intra : 11.4 MB
  • inter : 11.5 MB

• Size of the generated dataset:

  • super : 116.9 MB
  • intra : 106.2 MB
  • inter : 106.2 MB

• Total amount of disk used: 366.8 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    'id': '1', 
    'tokens': ['It', 'starred', 'Hicks', "'s", 'wife', ',', 'Ellaline', 'Terriss', 'and', 'Edmund', 'Payne', '.'], 
    'ner_tags': [0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 7, 7, 0, 7, 7, 0], 
    'fine_ner_tags': [0, 0, 51, 0, 0, 0, 50, 50, 0, 50, 50, 0]
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

• id : a string feature.
• tokens : a list of string features.
• ner_tags : a list of classification labels, with possible values including O (0), art (1), building (2), event (3), location (4), organization (5), other (6), person (7), product (8)
• fine_ner_tags : a list of fine-grained classification labels, with possible values including O (0), art-broadcastprogram (1), art-film (2), ...

Data Splits

Task	Train	Dev	Test
SUP	131767	18824	37648
INTRA	99519	19358	44059
INTER	130112	18817	14007

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

CC BY-SA 4.0 license

Citation Information

@inproceedings{ding-etal-2021-nerd,
    title = "Few-{NERD}: A Few-shot Named Entity Recognition Dataset",
    author = "Ding, Ning  and
      Xu, Guangwei  and
      Chen, Yulin  and
      Wang, Xiaobin  and
      Han, Xu  and
      Xie, Pengjun  and
      Zheng, Haitao  and
      Liu, Zhiyuan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.248",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.248",
    pages = "3198--3213",
}

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