Named Entities for Computational Linguistics

Download or read book Named Entities for Computational Linguistics written by Damien Nouvel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the challenges brought on by the digital revolution of the recent decades is the mechanism by which information carried by texts can be extracted in order to access its contents. The processing of named entities remains a very active area of research, which plays a central role in natural language processing technologies and their applications. Named entity recognition, a tool used in information extraction tasks, focuses on recognizing small pieces of information in order to extract information on a larger scale. The authors use written text and examples in French and English to present the necessary elements for the readers to familiarize themselves with the main concepts related to named entities and to discover the problems associated with them, as well as the methods available in practice for solving these issues.