I'm guessing that youre doing some kinda work in NLP, so you know where the literature is, but for folks who aren't, the first stop is http://aclweb.org/anthol

I'm guessing that youre doing some kinda work in NLP, so you know where the literature is, but for folks who aren't, the first stop is http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/ http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/ i have in my notes that NER was a conference task for 2003 http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2003/ner/ http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2003/ner/