The size of CoNLL-2003 is not consistant with the official release.
Hi,

if you inspect the raw data, you can find there are 946 occurrences of `-DOCSTART- -X- -X- O` in the train split and `14041 + 946 = 14987`, which is exactly the number of sentences the authors report. `-DOCSTART-` is a special line that acts as a boundary between two different documents and is filtered out in our implementation.

@lhoestq What do you think about including these lines? ([Link](https://github.com/flairNLP/flair/issues/1097) to a similar issue in the flairNLP repo)
Thanks for the dataset sharing! But when I use conll-2003, I meet some questions.
The statistics of conll-2003 in this repo is  : 
\#train 14041  \#dev 3250 \#test 3453
While the official statistics is:
\#train 14987 \#dev 3466 \#test 3684
Wish for your reply~
The size of CoNLL-2003 is not consistant with the official release. 
 Thanks for the dataset sharing! But when I use conll-2003, I meet some questions.
The statistics of conll-2003 in this repo is  : 
\#train 14041  \#dev 3250 \#test 3453
While the official statistics is:
\#train 14987 \#dev 3466 \#test 3684
Wish for your reply~ 
 Hi,

if you inspect the raw data, you can find there are 946 occurrences of `-DOCSTART- -X- -X- O` in the train split and `14041 + 946 = 14987`, which is exactly the number of sentences the authors report. `-DOCSTART-` is a special line that acts as a boundary between two different documents and is filtered out in our implementation.

@lhoestq What do you think about including these lines? ([Link](https://github.com/flairNLP/flair/issues/1097) to a similar issue in the flairNLP repo)