Summary
NER involves detecting entities and then classifying them. Common categories include names, locations, and things. This is an important task that many applications use to support searching, resolving references, and finding the meaning of the text. The process is frequently used in downstream tasks.
We investigated several techniques for performing NER. Regular expressions is one approach that is supported by both core Java classes and NLP APIs. This technique is useful for many applications and there are a large number of regular expression libraries available.
Dictionary-based approaches are also possible and work well for some applications. However, they require considerable effort to populate at times. We used LingPipe's MapDictionary ...
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