[Corpora-List] Named Entity Recognition Software

[Craig Pfeifer]

Based on my own limited reading, I'd suggest the NER tagger from U Illinois:

http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/asoftware.php?skey=FLBJNE

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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM, David L. Hoover <david.hoover at nyu.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Apologies if this is a much answered question, but I am working on a project
> that studies the use of names in literary texts, primarily place names and
> person names, but also other names. The only named entity recognition
> software I have tried is hopelessly inaccurate, with a failure rate of more
> than 30%. At this rate, it is quicker and more accurate to tag the text
> manually.
>
> What NER software do you all know of that is considered to be the most
> accurate? And roughly what accuracy level could be expected on literary
> texts (say, 20th century British and American novels)?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> --
>         David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU
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>
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> sometimes more than they like making sense. The history of
> literary studies over the past thirty years or so has given ample
> illustrations of the kinds of things literary academics often
> prefer to making sense." Joseph Carroll,  Style 42.2-3
>
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