---
license: mit
task_categories:
- token-classification
language:
- ar
tags:
- Sinalab
- Wojood
- ArabicNER
---

a snapshot from https://huggingface.co/datasets/AhmedNabil1/wojood-arabic-ner

# Wojood Arabic NER (Sample, Processed)

This dataset is a **processed version of the sample** from the [Wojood Arabic NER dataset](https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER), developed by [SinaLab](https://sina.birzeit.edu/).  
The original dataset is licensed under the **MIT License**, and this processed sample is shared under the same terms.

⚠️ **Note:** This is **not the full Wojood corpus**. The full dataset must be requested directly from the original authors (Prof. Mustafa Jarrar and team).

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## Dataset

- **Language:** Arabic
- **Task:** Named Entity Recognition (NER)
- **Entities:** PERS (Person), ORG, GPE (Geopolitical entities, countries, cities), LOC (Locations), DATE, TIME, CARDINAL, ORDINAL, PERCENT, MONEY, QUANTITY, EVENT, FAC (Facilities), NORP (Nationalities, religious/political groups), OCC (Occupations), LANGUAGE, WEBSITE, UNIT (Units of measurement), LAW (Legal documents), PRODUCT, CURR (Currencies)
- **Source:** [SinaLab/ArabicNER GitHub repo](https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER)  
- **Size:** This repository only contains the **sample subset** provided in the GitHub repository.  

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## Preprocessing

The data has been processed and converted into JSON format, structured specifically for fine-tuning NER tasks with proper formatting and tokenization.

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## Usage

You can load this dataset directly with `datasets`:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("AhmedNabil1/wojood-arabic-ner")
print(dataset["train"][0])
```

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## License

This dataset is released under the **MIT License**, in accordance with the original [Wojood Arabic NER](https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER) repository.  
Please retain this license and attribution when using or redistributing.

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## Acknowledgements

- **Dataset Source:** [SinaLab/ArabicNER GitHub repo](https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER)  
- **Processing and Hugging Face release:** [Ahmed Nabil / AhmedNabil1]