# WojoodNER 2024: The Second Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09936 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.09936/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 15 of its 49 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 15 of 15)

- [Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.02320/) (2020)
- [AraBERT: Transformer-based Model for Arabic Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.00104/) (2020)
- [Structured Prediction as Translation between Augmented Natural Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.05779/) (2021)
- [A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12631/) (2020)
- [Wojood: Nested Arabic Named Entity Corpus and Recognition using BERT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09651/) (2022)
- [Entity Projection via Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual NER](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.05356/) (2019)
- [NADI 2023: The Fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16117/) (2023)
- [Instance-Based Learning of Span Representations: A Case Study through Named Entity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.14514/) (2020)
- [Curras + Baladi: Towards a Levantine Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09692/) (2022)
- [ArabGlossBERT: Fine-Tuning BERT on Context-Gloss Pairs for WSD](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09685/) (2022)
- [Nabra: Syrian Arabic Dialects with Morphological Annotations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.17315/) (2023)
- [SALMA: Arabic Sense-Annotated Corpus and WSD Benchmarks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.19029/) (2023)
- [RuNNE-2022 Shared Task: Recognizing Nested Named Entities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11159/) (2022)
- [WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16153/) (2023)
- [Morphology-based Entity and Relational Entity Extraction Framework for Arabic](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.05700/) (2017)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [The FIGNEWS Shared Task on News Media Narratives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.18147/) (2024)
- [Event-Arguments Extraction Corpus and Modeling using BERT for Arabic](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.21153/) (2024)
- [Konooz: Multi-domain Multi-dialect Corpus for Named Entity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.12615/) (2025)
- [ArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.20663/) (2024)
- [mucAI at WojoodNER 2024: Arabic Named Entity Recognition with Nearest Neighbor Search](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.03652/) (2024)
- [SinaTools: Open Source Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.01523/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present WojoodNER-2024, the second Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task. In WojoodNER-2024, we focus on fine-grained Arabic NER. We provided participants with a new Arabic fine-grained NER dataset called wojoodfine, annotated with subtypes of entities. WojoodNER-2024 encompassed three subtasks: (i) Closed-Track Flat Fine-Grained NER, (ii) Closed-Track Nested Fine-Grained NER, and (iii) an Open-Track NER for the Israeli War on Gaza. A total of 43 unique teams registered for this shared task. Five teams participated in the Flat Fine-Grained Subtask, among which two teams tackled the Nested Fine-Grained Subtask and one team participated in the Open-Track NER Subtask. The winning teams achieved F-1 scores of 91% and 92% in the Flat Fine-Grained and Nested Fine-Grained Subtasks, respectively. The sole team in the Open-Track Subtask achieved an F-1 score of 73.7%.