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> Text and Data Mining > Information Extraction > Named Entity Recognition

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Named Entity Recognition  

Type

  • Named individual

  • Operation

Definition

  • 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, organization, 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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Entry terms

  • Entity extraction
  • Entity Identification
  • Entity Recognition
  • NER
  • NERC

Description

  • 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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  • can also be annotation

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/omtd-share/NamedEntityRecognition

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