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CrossNER

Overview

CrossNER is a fully-labeled collection of named entity recognition (NER) data spanning over five diverse domains: AI, Literature, Music, Politics, and Science. It enables cross-domain NER evaluation and domain adaptation research.

Task Description

  • Task Type: Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition (NER)
  • Input: Text from five specialized domains
  • Output: Domain-specific entity spans
  • Domain: AI, Literature, Music, Politics, Science

Key Features

  • Five diverse domain subsets
  • Domain-specific entity types per subset
  • Enables cross-domain transfer evaluation
  • Fully labeled with expert annotations
  • Useful for domain adaptation research

Evaluation Notes

  • Default configuration uses 5-shot evaluation
  • Metrics: Precision, Recall, F1-Score, Accuracy
  • Subsets: ai, literature, music, politics, science
  • Entity types vary by domain subset

Properties

Property Value
Benchmark Name cross_ner
Dataset ID extraordinarylab/cross-ner
Paper N/A
Tags Knowledge, NER
Metrics precision, recall, f1_score, accuracy
Default Shots 5-shot
Evaluation Split test
Train Split train

Data Statistics

Metric Value
Total Samples 2,506
Prompt Length (Mean) 5687.97 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max) 5407 / 6007 chars

Per-Subset Statistics:

Subset Samples Prompt Mean Prompt Min Prompt Max
ai 431 5562.3 5407 5878
literature 416 5725.13 5566 6007
music 465 5737.0 5570 5962
politics 651 5701.8 5527 5935
science 543 5700.71 5548 5995

Sample Example

Subset: ai

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "3a78cbcf",
      "content": "Here are some examples of named entity recognition:\n\nInput:\nPopular approaches of opinion-based recommender system utilize various techniques including text mining , information retrieval , sentiment analysis ( see also Multimodal sentiment a ... [TRUNCATED] ...  the most specific entity type.\n7. Ensure every opening tag has a matching closing tag.\n\nText to process:\nTypical generative model approaches include naive Bayes classifier s , Gaussian mixture model s , variational autoencoders and others .\n"
    }
  ],
  "target": "<response>Typical generative model approaches include <algorithm>naive Bayes classifier</algorithm> s , <algorithm>Gaussian mixture model</algorithm> s , <algorithm>variational autoencoders</algorithm> and others .</response>",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "metadata": {
    "tokens": [
      "Typical",
      "generative",
      "model",
      "approaches",
      "include",
      "naive",
      "Bayes",
      "classifier",
      "s",
      ",",
      "Gaussian",
      "mixture",
      "model",
      "s",
      ",",
      "variational",
      "autoencoders",
      "and",
      "others",
      "."
    ],
    "ner_tags": [
      "O",
      "O",
      "O",
      "O",
      "O",
      "B-ALGORITHM",
      "I-ALGORITHM",
      "I-ALGORITHM",
      "O",
      "O",
      "B-ALGORITHM",
      "I-ALGORITHM",
      "I-ALGORITHM",
      "O",
      "O",
      "B-ALGORITHM",
      "I-ALGORITHM",
      "O",
      "O",
      "O"
    ]
  }
}

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Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

You are a named entity recognition system that identifies the following entity types:
{entities}

Process the provided text and mark all named entities with XML-style tags.

For example:
<person>John Smith</person> works at <organization>Google</organization> in <location>Mountain View</location>.

Available entity tags: {entity_list}

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Wrap your entire response in <response>...</response> tags.
2. Inside these tags, include the original text with entity tags inserted.
3. Do not change the original text in any way (preserve spacing, punctuation, case, etc.).
4. Tag ALL entities you can identify using the exact tag names provided.
5. Do not include explanations, just the tagged text.
6. If entity spans overlap, choose the most specific entity type.
7. Ensure every opening tag has a matching closing tag.

Text to process:
{text}

Few-shot Template
Here are some examples of named entity recognition:

{fewshot}

You are a named entity recognition system that identifies the following entity types:
{entities}

Process the provided text and mark all named entities with XML-style tags.

For example:
<person>John Smith</person> works at <organization>Google</organization> in <location>Mountain View</location>.

Available entity tags: {entity_list}

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Wrap your entire response in <response>...</response> tags.
2. Inside these tags, include the original text with entity tags inserted.
3. Do not change the original text in any way (preserve spacing, punctuation, case, etc.).
4. Tag ALL entities you can identify using the exact tag names provided.
5. Do not include explanations, just the tagged text.
6. If entity spans overlap, choose the most specific entity type.
7. Ensure every opening tag has a matching closing tag.

Text to process:
{text}

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets cross_ner \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['cross_ner'],
    dataset_args={
        'cross_ner': {
            # subset_list: ['ai', 'literature', 'music']  # optional, evaluate specific subsets
        }
    },
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)