What is Named Entity Recognition (NER)?

Named entity recognition (NER)

The Named Entity Recognition or NER, is one of the features in the field of Natural Language Processing that cannot be missed. The very first step of extracting information from the text could be to perform named entity recognition on the text data.

The named entity recognition offers information extraction property and extracts defined locations, person names, monetary values, quantities, organization names, percentages, etc. This feature helps to quickly extract the named entities from the text. For example, if the input text is “I went to Seattle last week,” two named entities will be identified, i.e., “Seattle” as a location and “last week” as a date-time.

Implementation

Now let’s go ahead and perform named entity recognition on some sentences.