"Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories..."
Identifies named entities such as people, organizations, and locations, in a text.
Part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging): The process of assigning a grammatical category (such as noun, verb, adjective, etc.) to each word in a sentence.
Named Entity Recognition (NER) algorithms: The methods and techniques used to identify and extract named entities from text.
Entity types: The various categories of named entities that can be recognized, such as persons, organizations, locations, etc.
Feature engineering: The process of selecting and transforming the input features (such as the context of a word) that are used in NER algorithms.
Machine learning techniques: The statistical and computational methods used to train NER models to recognize named entities.
Supervised learning: The type of machine learning approach where a model is trained on labeled data (i.e., data where the named entities have already been identified).
Unsupervised learning: The type of machine learning approach where a model tries to discover patterns in the data on its own (i.e., without labeled data).
Semi-supervised learning: The type of machine learning approach where a model is trained on a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data.
Neural networks: A type of machine learning model that is particularly well-suited for natural language processing tasks, including NER.
Evaluation metrics: The measures used to determine how well a model is performing when identifying named entities. The most common evaluation metric is F1-score.
Person: Identifying names of people, including their first and last names, titles, and honorifics.
Location: Identifying names of places, including cities, countries, or other geographical locations.
Organization: Identifying names of companies, institutions, or other organizations.
Date and Time: Identifying date and time expressions in text, including specific dates, intervals, or relative time expressions.
Money: Identifying numeric expressions that represent money, including currency codes and units of measurement.
Percentage: Identifying numeric expressions that represent percentages.
Product: Identifying names of products or goods, including brand names or models.
Event: Identifying names of events, including sports games, music concerts, or festivals.
Law: Identifying names of legal terms, including laws, regulations, or contracts.
Religion: Identifying names of religions or religious figures.
Nationality: Identifying names of nationalities or ethnic groups.
Language: Identifying names of languages or dialects.
Health: Identifying names of diseases, medications, or medical procedures.
Science: Identifying names of scientific concepts or phenomena.
Sport: Identifying names of sports or athletes.
Misc: Identifying other named entities that do not fall into any of the above categories.
"...categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc."
"...that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories..."
"...taking an unannotated block of text, such as this one: Jim bought 300 shares of Acme Corp. in 2006. And producing an annotated block of text that highlights the names of entities:"
"...person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc."
"[Jim]Person"
"[Acme Corp.]Organization"
"[2006]Time"
"State-of-the-art NER systems for English produce near-human performance."
"...the best system entering MUC-7 scored 93.39% of F-measure while human annotators scored 97.60% and 96.95%."
"(also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction)"
"...that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories..."
"...mentioned in unstructured text..."
"...(also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction)..."
"...producing an annotated block of text that highlights the names of entities..."
"State-of-the-art NER systems for English produce near-human performance."
"...time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc."
"...the best system entering MUC-7 scored 93.39% of F-measure..."
"...while human annotators scored 97.60% and 96.95%."
"...such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc."