ANERgazet is a set of 3 Arabic gazetteers (people, locations and organizations) which might be used mainly for the Arabic NER task, but still can be used for other Arabic NLP tasks.

Each gazetteer contains a list of Arabic names belonging to the concerned class.

The gazetteers were extracted automatically from Arabic Wikipedia and the Web resources and then manually filtered.

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To our knowledge, ANERgazet is the only Arabic gazetteers which are freely available to the research community.

Developed as part of Yassine Benajiba’s AECI Ph.D. and the MiDES CICYT TIN2006-15265-C06-04 research project, co-funded by the AECI-PCI A01031707 and A706706 projects.

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