MSNER: A Multilingual Speech Dataset for Named Entity Recognition

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Main Authors: Meeus, Quentin, Moens, Marie-Francine, Van hamme, Hugo
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author Meeus, Quentin
Moens, Marie-Francine
Van hamme, Hugo
author_facet Meeus, Quentin
Moens, Marie-Francine
Van hamme, Hugo
contents While extensively explored in text-based tasks, Named Entity Recognition (NER) remains largely neglected in spoken language understanding. Existing resources are limited to a single, English-only dataset. This paper addresses this gap by introducing MSNER, a freely available, multilingual speech corpus annotated with named entities. It provides annotations to the VoxPopuli dataset in four languages (Dutch, French, German, and Spanish). We have also releasing an efficient annotation tool that leverages automatic pre-annotations for faster manual refinement. This results in 590 and 15 hours of silver-annotated speech for training and validation, alongside a 17-hour, manually-annotated evaluation set. We further provide an analysis comparing silver and gold annotations. Finally, we present baseline NER models to stimulate further research on this newly available dataset.
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spellingShingle MSNER: A Multilingual Speech Dataset for Named Entity Recognition
Meeus, Quentin
Moens, Marie-Francine
Van hamme, Hugo
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
While extensively explored in text-based tasks, Named Entity Recognition (NER) remains largely neglected in spoken language understanding. Existing resources are limited to a single, English-only dataset. This paper addresses this gap by introducing MSNER, a freely available, multilingual speech corpus annotated with named entities. It provides annotations to the VoxPopuli dataset in four languages (Dutch, French, German, and Spanish). We have also releasing an efficient annotation tool that leverages automatic pre-annotations for faster manual refinement. This results in 590 and 15 hours of silver-annotated speech for training and validation, alongside a 17-hour, manually-annotated evaluation set. We further provide an analysis comparing silver and gold annotations. Finally, we present baseline NER models to stimulate further research on this newly available dataset.
title MSNER: A Multilingual Speech Dataset for Named Entity Recognition
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11519