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Named Entity Recognition (NER)

Identifying and classifying named entities in text, persons, organizations, locations, dates, etc. A fundamental NLP task used in information extraction, search, and knowledge graphs.

Key terms

Entity typesBIO taggingSpaCyToken classification

Where you meet it in the real world

Document processing, search engines, news analysis, compliance

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