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fiNERweb

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Token Classification

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named-entity-recognition

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fiNERweb

Dataset Description

fiNERweb is a multilingual named entity recognition dataset containing annotated text in multiple languages. Each example contains:

Original text
Character spans for entities

Dataset Structure

Each example contains:

{
    "text": str,  # Original text
    "char_spans": List[Dict],  # Character-level entity spans
}

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("whoisjones/fiNERweb", "eng")  # For English

# Access the data
print(dataset["train"][0])

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{golde2025finerwebdatasetsartifactsscalable,
      title={FiNERweb: Datasets and Artifacts for Scalable Multilingual Named Entity Recognition}, 
      author={Jonas Golde and Patrick Haller and Alan Akbik},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2512.13884},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13884}, 
}