CLEF-HIPE-2020 Evaluation Toolkit

This repository contains the necessary material for replicating the results of the CLEF-HIPE-2020 shared task on NE processing on historical newspapers, namely:

• the scorer (CLEF-HIPE-2020-scorer as a submodule);
• the submitted system responses;
• the historical mapping resource used for the relaxed EL evaluation setting (also in the scorer submodule);
• a makefile to run the whole evaluation process.

How-To

To reproduce the results and the plots of the overview paper (cf.ref below), clone this repository with its submodules and run the Makefile:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/impresso/CLEF-HIPE-2020-eval
cd CLEF-HIPE-2020-eval
make eval-full VERSION=v1.3 RELEASE_DIR=data/release

This runs the full evaluation workflow based on systems' submissions, gold standards and the historical mapping resource.

Original submissions can be found in systems/submitted/.

The EL evaluation is run on the date-normalized submissions, where all date mentions are linked to NIL (the date type is not part of EL evaluation). The date-normalized versions can be found in systems/time-normalized.

The EL fuzzy evaluation is run on the histo-normalized submissions, where all QID are completed with historically related entities. The histo-normalized submissions can be found in systems/histo-normalized and the historical mappings corresponds to historico-fuzzy-QID-mapping-ID-mapping.tsv

The individual results per system run and task can be found in evaluation-results/system-evaluations, while the overall ranking per task and evaluation regime (strict vs fuzzy) may be found in evaluation-results/system-rankings. As there are many records per file, you may want to use grep to find relevant results:

# example: get overall ranking for NERC Coarse (across time and noise)
grep -rP "NE-COARSE-LIT-micro-fuzzy-TIME-ALL-LED-ALL\tALL" ranking-de-coarse-micro-fuzzy-all.tsv

The plots shown in the paper may be found in evaluation-results/robustness.

While the CRF baseline for NERC is trained during the evaluation workflow, the Aida baseline for EL is simply added to systems/submitted/.

Additional links

• official results
• data

References

Participant teams Working Notes paper

To appear in September 2020 in:
CLEF 2020 Working Notes. Working Notes of CLEF 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.
Editors: Linda Cappellato, Carsten Eickhoff, Nicola Ferro, Aurélie Névéol.
(link will be updated in due time).

LNCS Shared Task Condensed Overview paper

To appear in September 2020:
'Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers'. Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Alex Flückiger and Simon Clematide.
In: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2020).
Editors: Avi Arampatzis, Evangelos Kanoulas, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Hideo Joho, Christina Lioma, Carsten Eickhoff, Aurélie Névéol, Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro.
Springer, LNCS 12260.

CEUR Shared Task Extended Overview paper

To appear in September 2020:
'Extended Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers'. Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Alex Flückiger and Simon Clematide.
In: CLEF 2020 Working Notes. Working Notes of CLEF 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.
Editors: Linda Cappellato, Carsten Eickhoff, Nicola Ferro, Aurélie Névéol.