Week 11: Named entity recognition

DATA 441/641 · Week 11

Notes

• 11.1 Named Entity Recognition(slides)
• 11.2 Other NER Applications(slides)

Additional readings

• Practical NLP, Ch. 5 continued
• spaCy: Named entities

Discussion

• Why is NER sequence labeling rather than document classification?
• What extra work is entity linking beyond spotting a span?