Concept information
Preferred term
named entity recognition
Definition
- Named Entity Recognition is a type of Information Extraction technique used to automatically identify, segment, and label named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc.
Broader concept
Entry terms
- NER
Source
- Humbel, Marco, Julianne Nyhan, Andreas Vlachidis, Kim Sloan, and Alexandra Ortolja-Baird. 2021. “Named-Entity Recognition for Early Modern Textual Documents: A Review of Capabilities and Challenges with Strategies for the Future.” The Journal of Documentation; Devoted to the Recording, Organization and Dissemination of Specialized Knowledge 77 (6): 1223–47. https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-02-2021-0032. Wikipedia contributors. 2023a. “Named-Entity Recognition.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. May 23, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Named-entity_recognition&oldid=1156643335.
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URI
http://purl.org/knot/thesaurus/ner
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