---
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

[Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

### Citation Information

```bibtex
@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](https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza/) framework.