Huangyan Shan

Sebastian, Basti, Wastl?! Recognizing Named Entities in Bavarian Dialectal Data

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task to extract key information from texts, but annotated resources are scarce for dialects. This paper introduces the first dialectal NER dataset for German, BarNER, with 161K tokens annotated on Bavarian Wikipedia articles (bar-wiki) and tweets (bar-…