First release of data

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This distribution contains named entity tagged and entity linked speech data.

The named entity data was annotated as described in this paper:
Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Frederick Jelinek. OOV Sensitive Named-Entity
Recognition in Speech. International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2011.

A subset of the person entities in this dataset were annotated for
entity linking information as described in this paper:
Adrian Benton, Mark Dredze. Entity Linking for Spoken Language.
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2015.