extraction of named entity mentions in unstructured text into pre-defined categories

Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text … Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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Named-entity recognition - Wikipedia
September 22, 2025 - Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories such as person names (PER), ...
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IBM
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What Is Named Entity Recognition? | IBM
3 weeks ago - Named entity recognition (NER)—also called entity chunking or entity extraction—is a component of natural language processing (NLP) that identifies predefined categories of objects in a body of text.
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[D] Named Entity Recognition (NER) Libraries
If spaCy’s NER isn’t picking up what you need, you’ll probably need to look into creating your own annotations and fine tuning a model or training a custom model. It isn’t too hard using BIO/BILOU tags. Things like “raw materials” and particularly niche models and brands are unlikely to be picked up by off the shelf solutions. More on reddit.com
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Named-Entity Recognition of Long Texts Using HuggingFace's "ner" Pipeline
I did exactly this at my last job. We wanted to do NER on documents thats were sometimes 10,000 words long. We wrote a lot of custom code to split the documents into overlapping chunks, perform NER on each chunk, extract terms and labels from each chunk and then stitch the output back together. I tried to push management to let us open source the code but unfortunately to no avail 🥲 More on reddit.com
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How to build a NER?
Hi, NER is basically a token level text classification problem, which can be considered to be similar to semantic segmentation in vision tasks, which is pixel level classification. To prepare the dataset, first you need to have a fixed number of labels, like any other classification problem, and each word should be labelled (an label for all words doesn't have an entity). Please ensure no words are left unlabelled. Once you have this dataset, you can try these, based on your dataset aswell: as mentioned in other comments, few-shot learning with LLMs using spacy custom NER model ( Ref: https://medium.com/@mjghadge9007/building-your-own-custom-named-entity-recognition-ner-model-with-spacy-v3-a-step-by-step-guide-15c7dcb1c416 ) BERT token level classifier (Ref: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/tasks/token_classification ) An RNN or LSTM classifier with some dense embedded features (glove, word2vec etc), and a prediction layer at each time step after the stack of (if multi-layer) RNNs I would suggest you try the 4th one only if you have enough time, otherwise invest more on preparing a good enough custom dataset and work on any of the first 3. More on reddit.com
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Named Entity Recognition: is there a good guide/tutorial for evaluation/benchmarking?
I don't know about tutorials, but you should check the seqeval library. I also recommend Lignos and Kamyab (2020) about results reproductibility in NER More on reddit.com
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GeeksforGeeks
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Named Entity Recognition - GeeksforGeeks
October 4, 2025 - Named Entity Recognition (NER) in NLP focuses on identifying and categorizing important information known as entities in text. These entities can be names of people, places, organizations, dates, etc.
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Microsoft Learn
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What is the Named Entity Recognition (NER) feature in Azure Language in Foundry Tools? - Foundry Tools | Microsoft Learn
3 weeks ago - Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the features offered by Azure Language in Foundry Tools, a collection of machine learning and AI algorithms in the cloud for developing intelligent applications that involve written language.
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arXiv
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A Brief History of Named Entity Recognition
November 7, 2024 - A large amount of information in today’s world is now stored in knowledge bases. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a process of extracting, disambiguation, and linking an entity from raw text to insightful and structured knowledge bases. More concretely, it is identifying and classifying ...
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Lincsproject
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Named Entity Recognition (NER) | LINCS
Named Entity Recognition (NER) involves identifying and categorizing entities—a word or set of words that refers to the same thing—in text. NER, therefore, involves two steps: (1) identifying the entity and (2) categorizing it. Examples of entity categories may be Persons, Locations, Times, ...
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Analytics Vidhya
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A Beginner's Introduction to NER (Named Entity Recognition)
March 20, 2024 - At its core, Named Entity Recognition, or NER for short, is a subtask of NLP that focuses on identifying and classifying entities within textual data. These entities encompass a diverse range of information, including names of individuals, ...
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CLARIN
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Tools for Named Entity Recognition | CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
Named entity recognition (NER) is an information extraction task which identifies mentions of various named entities in unstructured text and classifies them into predetermined categories, such as person names, organisations, locations, date/time, monetary values, and so forth.
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DataCamp
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What is Named Entity Recognition (NER)? Methods, Use Cases, and Challenges | DataCamp
September 13, 2023 - Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a sub-task of information extraction in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that classifies named entities into predefined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, ...
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Dataknowsall
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An Accessible Guide to Named Entity Recognition
March 5, 2024 - Named Entity Recognition or NER is a technique for identifying and classifying named entities in text. These entities are a level above Part of Speech Tagging and Noun Phrase Chunking where instead of identifying grammatical parts; it's identifying ...
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AWS
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Extract text information using named entity recognition - Amazon SageMaker AI
To extract information from unstructured text and classify it into predefined categories, use an Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth named entity recognition (NER) labeling task. Traditionally, NER involves sifting through text data to locate noun phrases, called
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Tonic.ai
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What Is Named Entity Recognition (NER): How It Works & More | Tonic.ai
Named Entity Recognition (NER), also known as entity chunking or entity extraction, is an NLP task in data science that identifies and classifies words in text into predefined categories, or entity types, such as names of persons, organizations, ...
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Atlasti
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Named Entity Recognition (NER) - ATLAS.ti 9 Windows - User Manual
In natural language processing, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a process where a sentence, or a chunk of text is parsed through to find entities that can be put under categories like person, organization, location, or miscellaneous like work of arts, languages, political parties, events, ...
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Reddit
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r/MachineLearning on Reddit: [D] Named Entity Recognition (NER) Libraries
January 7, 2023 -

Hi everyone, I have to cluster a large chunk of textual conversational business data to find relevant topics in it.

Since there is lot of abstract info in every text like phone, url, numbers, email, name, etc., I have done some basic NER using regex and spacy NER to tag such info and make the texts more generic and canonicalized.

But there are some things like product names, raw materials, brand/model, company, etc. which couldn't be tagged. Also, the accuracy of regex and spacy NER isn't high enough.

Can anyone suggest a good python NER library, which is accurate and fast enough, preferably has pre-trained models and can tag diverse fields.

Thanks.

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arXiv
arxiv.org › abs › 2401.10825
[2401.10825] Recent Advances in Named Entity Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey and Comparative Study
December 20, 2024 - Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations).
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Encord
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What Is Named Entity Recognition? Selecting the Best Tool to Transform Your Model Training Data
January 22, 2025 - Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique used to identify and classify named entities in unstructured text into predefined categories such as Person, Organization, Location, Date, and more.
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Alteryx
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Named Entity Recognition
Use the Named Entity Recognition tool to identify entities, like people, places, and things, in text. The tool leverages the named entity recognition capabilities in the spaCy package.
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spaCy
spacy.io › api › entityrecognizer
EntityRecognizer · spaCy API Documentation
A transition-based named entity recognition component. The entity recognizer identifies non-overlapping labelled spans of tokens.
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TechTarget
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What Is Named Entity Recognition (NER)? | Definition from TechTarget
Named entity recognition (NER) is a natural language processing (NLP) method that extracts information from text. NER involves detecting and categorizing important information in text known as named entities.