This paper presents the results of the Twitter Named Entity Recognition shared task associated with W-NUT 2016: a named entity tagging task with 10 teams participating. We outline the shared task, annotation process and dataset statistics, and provide a high-level overview of the participating systems for each shared task.
Strauss, B., Toma, B., Ritter, A., de Marneffe, M.-C., & Xu, W. (2016). Results of the WNUT16 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. In Bo Han, Alan Ritter, Leon Derczynski, Wei Xu, Tim Baldwin (ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT) (p. p. 138-144). The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/229800