A simple script to convert XML Named Entity Recognition annotations to the CONLL format.
This script was made to convert XMLs from the project HAREM, a famous Portuguese NER dataset.
An example of input file can be found in example.xml or here.
You will need the following dependencies:
- Python 3
The following requirements will be needed. They can be installed mannually using the following list:
- nltk
Or, just by running the following command:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Run python3 xml2conll.py --input [XML FILE PATH] to convert the XML file to CONLL format.
If needed, you can specify the output file name with --output [CONLL FILE PATH].