Identify features and uses for entity recognition
As we saw in the NLP scenarios section, entity recognition, also referred to as named entity recognition (NER), is one of the tasks that can be provided by NLP as part of the language area of AI.
Entity recognition identifies and classifies entities from a body of unstructured text (a corpus) that is recognized.
Entity recognition can provide the following uses:
- Identifying people: Such as extracting names or celebrities from text such as newspaper articles/news feeds, and social media and how often they are mentioned/appear
- Identifying countries, locations, places, and city names: Such as those mentioned in online holiday reviews, places of interest to visit, and the number of times mentioned; the most common that appear
- Identifying brands: Such as those mentioned in social media and those that appear most often
- Identifying companies, and organizations: Such as extracting from a contract agreement
- Identifying...
