# NSURL-2019 Task 7: Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Farsi

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09029 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.09029/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 19 Mar 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Exploring the Potential of Machine Translation for Generating Named Entity Datasets: A Case Study between Persian and English](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.09611/) (2023)
- [The Annotation Bottleneck in Persian Text NLP: Persian as an Annotation-Scarce Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.24698/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

NSURL-2019 Task 7 focuses on Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Farsi. This task was chosen to compare different approaches to find phrases that specify Named Entities in Farsi texts, and to establish a standard testbed for future researches on this task in Farsi. This paper describes the process of making training and test data, a list of participating teams (6 teams), and evaluation results of their systems. The best system obtained 85.4% of F1 score based on phrase-level evaluation on seven classes of NEs including person, organization, location, date, time, money and percent.