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Document Processing

Named Entity Recognition (NER)

Identifying and classifying named entities like people, organisations, and dates in text.

Definition

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an NLP technique that identifies and classifies named entities in text into predefined categories such as person names, organisations, locations, dates, monetary values, and more. In document processing, NER enables automatic extraction of key information without requiring templates or manual configuration. Modern NER systems use deep learning to understand context and handle ambiguous cases.

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