Do LLMs Judge Distantly Supervised Named Entity Labels Well? Constructing the JudgeWEL Dataset

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Hauptverfasser: Plum, Alistair, Bernardy, Laura, Ranasinghe, Tharindu
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author Plum, Alistair
Bernardy, Laura
Ranasinghe, Tharindu
author_facet Plum, Alistair
Bernardy, Laura
Ranasinghe, Tharindu
contents We present judgeWEL, a dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in Luxembourgish, automatically labelled and subsequently verified using large language models (LLM) in a novel pipeline. Building datasets for under-represented languages remains one of the major bottlenecks in natural language processing, where the scarcity of resources and linguistic particularities make large-scale annotation costly and potentially inconsistent. To address these challenges, we propose and evaluate a novel approach that leverages Wikipedia and Wikidata as structured sources of weak supervision. By exploiting internal links within Wikipedia articles, we infer entity types based on their corresponding Wikidata entries, thereby generating initial annotations with minimal human intervention. Because such links are not uniformly reliable, we mitigate noise by employing and comparing several LLMs to identify and retain only high-quality labelled sentences. The resulting corpus is approximately five times larger than the currently available Luxembourgish NER dataset and offers broader and more balanced coverage across entity categories, providing a substantial new resource for multilingual and low-resource NER research.
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spellingShingle Do LLMs Judge Distantly Supervised Named Entity Labels Well? Constructing the JudgeWEL Dataset
Plum, Alistair
Bernardy, Laura
Ranasinghe, Tharindu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
We present judgeWEL, a dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in Luxembourgish, automatically labelled and subsequently verified using large language models (LLM) in a novel pipeline. Building datasets for under-represented languages remains one of the major bottlenecks in natural language processing, where the scarcity of resources and linguistic particularities make large-scale annotation costly and potentially inconsistent. To address these challenges, we propose and evaluate a novel approach that leverages Wikipedia and Wikidata as structured sources of weak supervision. By exploiting internal links within Wikipedia articles, we infer entity types based on their corresponding Wikidata entries, thereby generating initial annotations with minimal human intervention. Because such links are not uniformly reliable, we mitigate noise by employing and comparing several LLMs to identify and retain only high-quality labelled sentences. The resulting corpus is approximately five times larger than the currently available Luxembourgish NER dataset and offers broader and more balanced coverage across entity categories, providing a substantial new resource for multilingual and low-resource NER research.
title Do LLMs Judge Distantly Supervised Named Entity Labels Well? Constructing the JudgeWEL Dataset
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00411