named entity recognition

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

Named entity recognition is a form of entity recognition where the entities being detected have a proper name such a person's name or a placename. Whilst datatyopes such as numbers and date may use some ofrm of pattern matching named entity recognition usually requires looking up individual words or n-grams in large lexicons or personal data sources.

Used in Chap. 17: page 259; Chap. 19: page 300