Named Entity Recognition: A Survey for the Indian Languages
Padmaja Sharma, Utpal Sharma, Jugal Kumar Kalita · 2011
Named Entity Recognition(NER) is the process of identifying and classifying all proper noun into pre-defined classes such as persons, locations, organization and others. Work on NER in Indian languages is a difficult and challenging task and also limited due to scarcity of resources, but it has started to appear recently. In this paper we present a brief overview of NER and its issues in the Indian languages. We also describe the different approaches used in NER and also the work in NER in different Indian languages like Bengali, Telugu, Hindi, Oriya and Urdu along with the methodologies used. Lastly we presented the results obtained for the different Indian languages in terms of F-measure.