named entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnameandentity
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name
noun
uk/neɪm/us/neɪm/
the word or words that a person, thing, or place is ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofnameandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Anamed-entitydetector receiving this common analysis structure may consider the deep parse to identify named entities.
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There has been a considerable amount of work on suchnamedentityrecognition problems.
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As entity names provide important content in a text document,namedentityrecognition is a very important step in information extraction.
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So you might suspect geospatialnamedentityrecognition could have a role to play here, and it does.
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Firstly,namedentityrecognition performs what is known as surface parsing, delimiting sequences of tokens that answer these important questions.
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In most cases, the included ones are parts ofnamedentitytokens or numbers.
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Furthermore, we added open domainnamedentity-type semantic categories.
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If the answer to question 1 was ' yes' but the answers to questions 2 and 3 were ' no ', thenamedentitywas classified as deformable.
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As a result, anamedentityrecognition system with better performance and better portability (with much less training data) is achieved.
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A viable solution here is to have some kind ofnamedentitygrammars, processed in a weaker formalism.
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If the answer to all three questions was ' no', thenamedentitywas classified as rigid.
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Performance has been best on (sub)tasks likenamedentityrecognition, not just because they are easier but also because they are relatively uncontroversial.
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In this way, thenamedentityrecognition problem is resolved effectively.
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Note that such scenario does not imply a simplenamedentityrecognition task.
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Various features are applied and integrated effectively to capture internal and external evidences for thenamedentityrecognition problem.
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The scope of the categories used here is broader than the commonnamedentityrecognizer.
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These lists are different from ordinarynamedentitylists, since they cross the boundary of the same syntactic role.
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