We present WojoodNER-2023, the first Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Shared Task. The primary focus of WojoodNER-2023 is on Arabic NER, offering
novel NER datasets (i.e., Wojood) and the definition of subtasks designed to
facilitate meaningful comparisons between different NER approaches.
WojoodNER-2023 encompassed two Subtasks: FlatNER and NestedNER. A total of 45
unique teams registered for this shared task, with 11 of them actively
participating in the test phase. Specifically, 11 teams participated in
FlatNER, while $8$ teams tackled NestedNER. The winning teams achieved F1
scores of 91.96 and 93.73 in FlatNER and NestedNER, respectively.

WojoodNER-2023 是第一个阿拉伯命名实体识别（NER）共享任务，提供新的 NER 数据集（即 Wojood），定义了用于不同 NER 方法之间有意义比较的子任务。本次共享任务包含两个子任务：FlatNER 和 NestedNER。共有 45 个独特的团队注册参加，其中 11 个团队积极参与测试阶段。具体而言，11 个团队参与了 FlatNER，而 8 个团队解决了 NestedNER。获胜团队在 FlatNER 和 NestedNER 中分别取得了 91.96 和 93.73 的 F1 分数。