https://hdl.handle.net/21.11129/0000-000D-FE94-E (persistent URL to this page)
Freely available large dataset, manually annotated for German NER. Includes nested span annotations. Source text from German Wikipedia and news. This data set does not contain the test data, which is used for the GermEval 2014 NER task at KONVENS. Test data will be available from September 2014.