Named entity recognition for information extraction

• Main Author: Wei, Mark Zi Yun
• Other Authors: Hui Siu Cheung
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Document and text processing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148635
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Named Entity Recognition (NER) refers to the task of examining unstructured text to extract real-world objects, peoples, terms, and more, termed ‘named’ entities, to be classified into predefined categories (Person, Location, Organization, etc.). NER serves as a crucial first step for a wide range o...