Resources for Text, Speech and Language Processing

Tagged datasets for named entity recognition tasks

1. 1999 Information Extraction -- Entity Recognition Evaluation
   Notes: This dataset is apparently in public domain.
2. MUC-3 and MUC-4 datasets
   Notes: This dataset is apparently in public domain.
3. Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition at CoNLL-2003
   Notes: This dataset is a manual annotation of a subset of RCV1 (Reuters Corpus Volume 1). The annotation per se is available free of charge (subject to a licensing agreement) from the CoNLL site. The raw text of RCV1 documents must be requested from NIST (also free of charge and also subject to a licensing agreement).
4. Message Understanding Conference (MUC) 6
   Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
5. Message Understanding Conference (MUC) 6 Additional News Text
   Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
6. Message Understanding Conference (MUC) 7
   Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
7. ACE-2 Version 1.0
   Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
8. TIDES Extraction (ACE) 2003 Multilingual Training Data
   Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
9. ACE 2004 Multilingual Training Corpus
   Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
10. Name-Annotated TDT Corpus Supplement for ACE
    Notes: Consult the LDC Web site for current pricing and usage agreement.
11. Enron Email Dataset
    Notes: Email messages in this corpus are tagged with person names, dates and times.
12. A variety of biomedical corpora
    Notes: Some corpora in this collection are tagged with entities in the biomedical domain, such as gene names.
13. Automatic Content Extraction (ACE)
    Notes: Homepage of the ACE program.