Named entity recognition

• identifying and categorising names in text

• introduced by DARPA as a part of message understanding process

• included in MUC6 (1995) and MUC7 (1998)

• 7 types of named entities

  • person
  • organization
  • location
  • date
  • time
  • money
  • percent

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