building a named recogniser is fairly easy (you could even get a trainable
tagger to do it ...). look here for inspiration:
http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2003/ner/
you'll see data (english and german) and a set of papers talking about various
systems. interestingly enough, the technology itself isn't that vital: what is
morere important -as ever- is having good features.
Miles
Quoting Diego Molla <diego@ics.mq.edu.au>:
> Hailing,
>
> A couple of months ago I posted the same question to the list and I only
>
> found the NE recogniser included in GATE: http://gate.ac.uk/
>
> Diego
>
> Hailing Jiang wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am looking for a named entity recognition software (for English)
> > that is free for research purposes. Is anyone aware of such
> software?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Hailing
> >
>
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