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Named Entity Recognition (NER)

NLP & Language Models

Identification of named entities (person, place, organization).


Named Entity Recognition (NER) identifies and classifies proper names in text, such as people, locations, and companies.

  • Use: Structuring unstructured text for search and analytics.
  • Methods: Sequence labeling, CRFs, BiLSTM-CRF, transformer-based models.
  • Examples: Extracting company names from news articles.