Natural Language Processing Projects: Build Next-Generation NLP Applications Using AI Techniques

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A. Kulkarni et al.Natural Language Processing Projects https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7386-9_8

8. Named-Entity Recognition Using CRF and BERT

Akshay Kulkarni¹  , Adarsha Shivananda¹ and Anoosh Kulkarni²

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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Bangalore, India

 

Named-entity recognition (NER) is a natural language processing technique. It is also called entity identification or entity extraction . It identifies named entities in text and classifies them into predefined categories. For example, extracted entities can be the names of organizations, locations, times, quantities, people, monetary values, and more present in text.

With NER, key information is often extracted ...