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Dictionary of Terms for Language Resources and Language Technology Infrastructures

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language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > text and data mining > information extraction > named entity recognition

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named entity recognition  

Definition

  • a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities in text into pre-defined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc

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Entry terms

  • entity extraction
  • entity identification
  • entity recognition
  • NER
  • NERC

Note

  • Named entity (NE) recognition is a form of information extraction in which the major task is to identify and classify from NL text every word or sequence of words as being a person-name, organizaton, location, date, time, monetary value, percentage expression. NE recognition has a high impact for a number of applications, like e.g., InterNet search engines, text data mining or answer extraction.

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http://w3id.org/clarin_el_dictionary/namedEntityRecognition

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