AI Glossary/Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Natural Language Processing

Named Entity Recognition (NER)

Identifying and classifying named entities in text into categories like person, organization, location.

In-depth explanation

NER is a sequence labeling task that extracts and classifies entities from unstructured text. Common entity types include PERSON, ORGANIZATION, LOCATION, DATE, and MONEY. NER is fundamental to information extraction, question answering, and knowledge graph construction. Modern NER uses transformer-based models for state-of-the-art performance.

Examples

"Apple was founded by Steve Jobs" → PERSON: Steve Jobs, ORG: Apple

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