Corpora: Named Entity Recognition Software

[Ekaterini Pastra]

Dear Dan,

you may want to give a look at GATE
(General Architecture for Text Engineering).
This is a platform for developing NLP applications, created
by the Natural Language Processing Group, at the University of
Sheffield.
It provides (among other) all the necessary modules for building a Named
Entity Recognition
tool for English and at the same time, it can be customized to your own
language
and processing resources.
Have a look at:
http://gate.ac.uk/

Best,
Katerina Pastra

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Katerina Pastra
Research Assistant - ILASH Research Co-ordinator
Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
tel. +44 114 2221945
fax +44 114 2221810
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina


Dan Winchester wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for freely available Named Entity Recognition
> software and was hoping that list members might be able to
> help me with specific recommendations or advice on where
> to look.  I am particularly interested in NER tools that are
>
> capable of classifying Named Entities by type (eg. Person,
> Organization, Location etc).
>
> Should I receive a deluge of replies, I will post a list on
> the
> newsgroup.
>
> Thanks very much in anticipation of your help.
>
> Dan Winchester
>
> University of Birmingham, UK