Corpora: Summary: Named Entity Recognition Software

From: Dan Winchester (D.Winchester@cs.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 13:03:21 MET

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    Hello All,

    Below is a summary of the replies to my query regarding
    freely available NER software.

    Thanks very much to
    Eric Breck
    Katerina Pastra
    & Yorick Wilks

    I will re-post if I get additional replies.

    Best Regards

    Dan Winchester

    Eric Breck writes:

    Checkout Alembic and Phrag, both open-source NE taggers
    available from
    research groups at MITRE corp (www.mitre.org). Alembic is
    based on Brill
    rules and Phrag on an HMM-style architecture. If you can't
    find a
    webpage, mbv@mitre.org and john@mitre.org, respectively, are
    the folks to
    contact.

    Both Katerina Pastra and Yorick Wilks suggested the
    GATE architecture

    Katerina Writes,

    You may want to give a look at GATE (General Architecture
    for Text Engineering).
    This is a platform for developing NLP applications, created
    by the Natural Language Processing Group, at the University
    of
    Sheffield. It provides (among other) all the necessary
    modules for building a Named Entity Recognition
    tool for English and at the same time, it can be customized
    to your own language and processing resources.
    Have a look at:
    http://gate.ac.uk/

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