Datasets:
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- token-classification
language:
- hy
tags:
- named-entity-recognition
pretty_name: ArmTDP-NER
dataset_info:
homepage: https://github.com/myavrum/ArmTDP-NER
size_categories:
- n<1K
Dataset Summary
ArmTDP-NER is a manually annotated named entity corpus for Modern Eastern Armenian. It contains 900 newspaper articles across various domains with 17,632 entity annotations. The annotation follows a modified OntoNotes 5.0 markup scheme adapted for Eastern Armenian-specific considerations, covering 18 named entity types.
Dataset Structure
Data Fields
The corpus is distributed as newline-delimited JSON (JSONL). Each line is one document with character-offset span annotations.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
int | Document identifier |
text |
string | Raw document text |
labels |
list of [start, end, label] |
Character-offset spans with string label names |
annotation_approver |
string | Annotator identifier |
Annotation Scheme
The corpus uses 18 named entity types derived from the OntoNotes 5.0 scheme:
| Entity Type | Count | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PERSON | 3,502 | People, including fictional characters |
| ORGANIZATION | 3,388 | Companies, agencies, institutions |
| GPE | 3,290 | Countries, cities, states |
| DATE | 1,995 | Absolute or relative dates/periods |
| CARDINAL | 1,145 | Numerals not fitting other categories |
| NORP | 823 | Nationalities, religious or political groups |
| ORDINAL | 608 | Ordinal numbers |
| FACILITY | 601 | Buildings, airports, highways, bridges |
| LAW | 466 | Named documents made into laws |
| TIME | 405 | Times smaller than a day |
| QUANTITY | 343 | Measurements (weight, distance, etc.) |
| MONEY | 267 | Monetary values, including units |
| LOCATION | 166 | Non-GPE locations, water bodies, mountain ranges |
| WORK OF ART | 156 | Titles of books, songs, etc. |
| PERCENT | 112 | Percentages, including the % symbol |
| PRODUCT | 107 | Vehicles, weapons, foods, etc. |
| EVENT | 211 | Named hurricanes, battles, wars, sports events |
| LANGUAGE | 47 | Named languages |
Total entity annotations: 17,632
Dataset Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Documents | 900 |
| Entity types | 18 |
| Total annotations | 17,632 |
Dataset Creation
Source Data
Newspaper articles in Modern Eastern Armenian sourced from various domains.
Annotations
Annotations were produced manually by the ArmTDP team. The annotation scheme adapts the OntoNotes 5.0 standard to account for Eastern Armenian-specific linguistic considerations.
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Marat M. Yavrumyan and the ArmTDP team at Yerevan State University, in collaboration with Armenia National SDG Innovation Lab and UC Berkeley's Armenian Linguists network.
Contact: marat.yavrumyan@ysu.am
Licensing Information
Citation Information
@misc{ArmTDP-NER,
title = {{ArmTDP-NER}: Eastern Armenian Named Entity Corpus, 1.0},
author = {Marat Yavrumyan},
year = {2020},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17999570}
url = {https://github.com/myavrum/ArmTDP-NER},
note = {Corpus available from https://github.com/myavrum/ArmTDP-NER}
}
Related Resources
A pre-trained NER model for Eastern Armenian trained on this corpus is available through the Stanza framework.