Named entity recognition approaches: A study applied to English and Hindi language

Abstract

Named Entity Recognition is the technique of identifying named entities which are present in documents like names of persons, percentage values, organization names, locations etc. Named Entity Recognition is used for information extraction. There are different approaches for performing the process of named entity recognition. This paper makes a comparative study of different approaches for named entity recognition applied to English and Hindi language corpus. This study is conducted with a view to extend the work and developing an efficient method for named entity recognition in Malayalam language.