Rule-based Named Entity Recognition Task

A Rule-based Named Entity Recognition Task is a Named Entity Recognition Task that makes use of a manually create rule set (such as a regular expression).

• Example(s):
  • an Email Address Recognition Task
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Dictionary-based NER Task.
  • a Supervised NER Task.
• See: Rule-based NER Algorithm, Rule-based NER System.

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References

2010

• http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/demos/tutorial/ne/read-me.html
  • QUOTE: Named entity recognition is particularly easy if it's possible to write a regular expression that captures the intended pattern of entities. ... We'll write an entity detector that finds well-formed email addresses. The format of emails is explained, with references to the standards, in ... The first step is writing a regular expression that matches all and only e-mail addresses.

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