Hi, I needed to train Italian models for NER and I used the evalita 07 and evalita 09 corpora:
http://www.evalita.it/ Evalita NER 07 and 09 formats is based on CoNLL 2003 except for the fact that instead of a MISC class they add a GPE (geopolitical entity) class. In order to convert the dataset format to OpenNLP training data I created two classes which I attach, in case you think it is useful for the project. Cheers, Rodrigo
