Named Entity Recognition for Nepali language: A Semi Hybrid Approach
Arindam Dey, Abhijit Paul, Bipul Syam Purkayastha · 2014
Named entity recognition (NER) is a process of specific Information Extraction (IE) from a text document or paragraph. Named Entity has some specific classes like Name of Person, Location, Number, Organization, Currency, Quantifier etc. Our target language is Nepali. This language is one of the Indian language as well as the national language of Nepal. In this paper the main focus is on development of stemming tool, POS (Part of Speech) tagging tool and finally NER detection tool using a semi hybrid approach(Using HMM and some rule based approaches. Accuracy of these tools is also determined.