Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the process of identifying occurrences of words or expressions as belonging to a particular category of a Named Entity (NE).The aim of the project was to test the feasibility of a probabilistic NER system using South African data.
Reference:
De Waal, AJ, Louis, AL and Venter, JP. 2006. Named entity recognition in a South African context. SAICSIT: South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, Cape Winelands, South Africa, 2006, pp 170-179
De Waal, A., Louis, A., & Venter, J. (2006). Named entity recognition in a South African context. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/854
De Waal, AJ, AL Louis, and JP Venter. "Named entity recognition in a South African context." (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/854
De Waal A, Louis A, Venter J, Named entity recognition in a South African context; 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/854 .