The FinSBD 2019 Shared Task: Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain
In this paper, we present the results and findings of The FinSBD 2019 Shared Task on Sentence boundary detection in PDF Noisy text in the Financial Domain. This shared task was organized as part of The First Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) collocated with IJCAI2019. The shared task aimed at collecting systems for extracting well segmented sentences from Financial prospectuses by detecting and marking their beginning and ending boundaries. The FinSBD shared task is the first to target the task of sentence boundary detection in the domain of Finance. A total of 9 teams from 7 countries participated in the shared task with a variety of systems and techniques.