# Introducing RONEC -- the Romanian Named Entity Corpus

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01247 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.01247/

## Key facts

- Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 3 Sep 2019.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

We present RONEC - the Named Entity Corpus for the Romanian language. The corpus contains over 26000 entities in ~5000 annotated sentences, belonging to 16 distinct classes. The sentences have been extracted from a copy-right free newspaper, covering several styles. This corpus represents the first initiative in the Romanian language space specifically targeted for named entity recognition. It is available in BRAT and CoNLL-U Plus formats, and it is free to use and extend at github.com/dumitrescustefan/ronec .