Challenge: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is integral to many NLP applications such as chatbots and question answering.
Approach: They propose to annotate Arabic nested entities instead of flat annotations by manually annotating 550K tokens with 21 entity types including person, organization, location, event and date.
Outcome: The proposed model achieved an overall micro F1-score of 0.884 and the annotation guidelines and source code are publicly available.

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