CLEF-HIPE-2020 (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities) is a evaluation campaign on named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and English, which was organized in the context of the impresso project and run as a CLEF 2020 Evaluation Lab. Data consists of manually annotated historical newspapers in French, German and English. For more information, please refer to: the CLEF-HIPE-2020 website; the CLEF-HIPE-2020-eval repository, for the necessary material to replicate the results of the shared task; the CLEF-HIPE-2020 poster presented at CLEF 2019 in Lugano, Switzerland; the CLEF-HIPE-2020 participation guidelines (v1.1); the impresso Named Entity Annotation Guidelines (v2.2.0); the CLEF-HIPE-2020 Extended Overview paper (bibtex below); the participant team CEUR working note papers; the workshop presentation video records; A second edition of HIPE is organised in 2022: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2022/ Please cite this paper if you are using the datasets or find the shared task results relevant to your research: @inproceedings{ehrmann_extended_2020, title = {Extended {Overview} of {CLEF HIPE} 2020: {Named Entity Processing} on {Historical Newspapers}}, booktitle = {{CLEF 2020 Working Notes}. {Working Notes} of {CLEF} 2020 - {Conference} and {Labs} of the {Evaluation Forum}}, author = {Ehrmann, Maud and Romanello, Matteo and Fl{\"u}ckiger, Alex and Clematide, Simon}, editor = {Cappellato, Linda and Eickhoff, Carsten and Ferro, Nicola and N{\'e}v{\'e}ol, Aur{\'e}lie}, year = {2020}, volume = {2696}, pages = {38}, publisher = {{CEUR-WS}}, address = {{Thessaloniki, Greece}}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4117566}, url = {https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/281054}, }

CLEF-HIPE-2020 data v1.3 was used during the shared task; v1.4 is a post-evaluation release (with sentence splitting).