Named Entity Resources - Overview and Outlook
Maud Ehrmann, Damien Nouvel, Sophie Rosset · 2016
Recognition of real-world entities is crucial for most NLP applications.Since its introduction some twenty years ago, named entity processing has undergone a significant evolution with, among others, the definition of new tasks (e.g.entity linking) and the emergence of new types of data (e.g.speech transcriptions, micro-blogging).These pose certainly new challenges which affect not only methods and algorithms but especially linguistic resources.Where do we stand with respect to named entity resources?This paper aims at providing a systematic overview of named entity resources, accounting for qualities such as multilingualism, dynamicity and interoperability, and to identify shortfalls in order to guide future developments.