Named Entity Recognition

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Summary

Named Entity Recognition (or NER for short) is a problem in the field of information extraction that which looks at identifying atomic elements (entities) in text and classifying them into predefined classes such as person names, organizations, locations, dates, etc.

Common Approaches

Some common approaches to named entity recognition include the following:

Example Systems

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References / Links

  • Wikipedia page on Named entity recognition [1]

Relevant Papers