word

Named entity recognition

NAYMD EN-tih-tee rek-og-NIH-shun

/neɪmd ˈɛntɪti ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/

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Syllable breakdown

namedentityrecognition

Dictionary meaning

A subtask of information extraction in natural language processing that identifies and classifies named entities — such as persons, organisations, locations, dates, and quantities — within unstructured text into predefined categories.

Examples

Named entity recognition is used in chatbots to extract names and locations from user messages.
The NER system correctly identified 'Apple' as an organisation rather than a fruit in context.

Synonyms: NER, entity extraction, entity identification

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