Overview
The Groningen Meaning Bank (GMB) is a dataset of multi-sentence texts, together with annotations for parts-of-speech, named entities, lexical categories and other natural language structural phenomena.
Dataset Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | IOB format |
| License | CDLA-Sharing |
| Domain | Natural Language Processing |
| Number of Records | 1,314,115 terms |
| Size | 10 MB |
| Origin | University of Groningen |
| Dataset Version Update | Version 2 – May 14, 2020 Version 1 – December 19, 2019 |
| Data Coverage | The dataset contains only documents authored by Voice of America VOA, together with documents from the MASC dataset and the CIA World Factbook. |
| Business Use Case | Linguistics: Can be used to train a model to perform named entity recognition or part-of-speech tagging, as well as to generate new text features. |
Dataset Archive Contents
| File or Folder | Description |
|---|---|
gmb_subset_full.txt |
A full version of the raw dataset. Used to train MAX model – Named Entity Tagger. |
LICENSE.txt |
Terms of Use |
README.txt |
Explains dataset information |
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Use the Dataset
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Citation
@incollection{Bos2017GMB,
title = {The Groningen Meaning Bank},
author = {Bos, Johan and Basile, Valerio and Evang, Kilian and Venhuizen, Noortje and Bjerva, Johannes},
booktitle = {Handbook of Linguistic Annotation},
editor = {Ide, Nancy and Pustejovsky, James},
publisher = {Springer},
volume = {2},
pages = {463--496},
year = {2017}
}
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