Data Skeptic

Named Entity Recognition

Jun 8, 2019 · 17 min · 20.6 MB
0:00-17:12

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Kyle and Linh Da discuss the class of approaches called "Named Entity Recognition" or NER. NER algorithms take any string as input and return a list of "entities" - specific facts and agents in the text along with a classification of the type (e.g. person, date, place).