Human-Annotated NER Dataset for the Kyrgyz Language

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Main Authors: Turatali, Timur, Alekseev, Anton, Jumalieva, Gulira, Kabaeva, Gulnara, Nikolenko, Sergey
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author Turatali, Timur
Alekseev, Anton
Jumalieva, Gulira
Kabaeva, Gulnara
Nikolenko, Sergey
author_facet Turatali, Timur
Alekseev, Anton
Jumalieva, Gulira
Kabaeva, Gulnara
Nikolenko, Sergey
contents We introduce KyrgyzNER, the first manually annotated named entity recognition dataset for the Kyrgyz language. Comprising 1,499 news articles from the 24.KG news portal, the dataset contains 10,900 sentences and 39,075 entity mentions across 27 named entity classes. We show our annotation scheme, discuss the challenges encountered in the annotation process, and present the descriptive statistics. We also evaluate several named entity recognition models, including traditional sequence labeling approaches based on conditional random fields and state-of-the-art multilingual transformer-based models fine-tuned on our dataset. While all models show difficulties with rare entity categories, models such as the multilingual RoBERTa variant pretrained on a large corpus across many languages achieve a promising balance between precision and recall. These findings emphasize both the challenges and opportunities of using multilingual pretrained models for processing languages with limited resources. Although the multilingual RoBERTa model performed best, other multilingual models yielded comparable results. This suggests that future work exploring more granular annotation schemes may offer deeper insights for Kyrgyz language processing pipelines evaluation.
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spellingShingle Human-Annotated NER Dataset for the Kyrgyz Language
Turatali, Timur
Alekseev, Anton
Jumalieva, Gulira
Kabaeva, Gulnara
Nikolenko, Sergey
Computation and Language
We introduce KyrgyzNER, the first manually annotated named entity recognition dataset for the Kyrgyz language. Comprising 1,499 news articles from the 24.KG news portal, the dataset contains 10,900 sentences and 39,075 entity mentions across 27 named entity classes. We show our annotation scheme, discuss the challenges encountered in the annotation process, and present the descriptive statistics. We also evaluate several named entity recognition models, including traditional sequence labeling approaches based on conditional random fields and state-of-the-art multilingual transformer-based models fine-tuned on our dataset. While all models show difficulties with rare entity categories, models such as the multilingual RoBERTa variant pretrained on a large corpus across many languages achieve a promising balance between precision and recall. These findings emphasize both the challenges and opportunities of using multilingual pretrained models for processing languages with limited resources. Although the multilingual RoBERTa model performed best, other multilingual models yielded comparable results. This suggests that future work exploring more granular annotation schemes may offer deeper insights for Kyrgyz language processing pipelines evaluation.
title Human-Annotated NER Dataset for the Kyrgyz Language
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19109