Language independent NER using a maximum entropy tagger

  • Authors:
  • James R. Curran;Stephen Clark

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • CONLL '03 Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems need to integrate a wide variety of information for optimal performance. This paper demonstrates that a maximum entropy tagger can effectively encode such information and identify named entities with very high accuracy. The tagger uses features which can be obtained for a variety of languages and works effectively not only for English, but also for other languages such as German and Dutch.