Named Entity Recognition: Fundamentals and Applications
About this audiobook
What Is Named Entity Recognition
Named-entity recognition, or NER, 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, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, and so on. Other names for this subtask include (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction. Named-entity recognition is also known as named-entity identification.
How You Will Benefit
(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:
Chapter 1: Named-entity recognition
Chapter 2: Natural language processing
Chapter 3: Information extraction
Chapter 4: Named entity
Chapter 5: Relationship extraction
Chapter 6: Outline of natural language processing
Chapter 7: Entity linking
Chapter 8: Apache cTAKES
Chapter 9: SpaCy
Chapter 10: Zero-shot learning
(II) Answering the public top questions about named entity recognition.
(III) Real world examples for the usage of named entity recognition in many fields.
(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of named entity recognition' technologies.
Who This Book Is For
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of named entity recognition.
About the author
Fouad Sabry is the former Regional Head of Business Development for Applications at HP in Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEMEA). Fouad has received his B.Sc. of Computer Systems and Automatic Control in 1996, dual masterâs degrees from University of Melbourne (UoM) in Australia, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2008, and Master of Management in Information Technology (MMIT) in 2010.
Fouad has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Telecommunications fields, working in local, regional, and international companies, such as Vodafone and IBM in Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Fouad joined HP Middle East (ME), based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2013 and helped develop the software business in tens of markets across Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEMEA) regions. Currently, Fouad is an entrepreneur, author, futurist, focused on Emerging Technologies, and Industry Solutions, and founder of One Billion Knowledgeable (1BK) Initiative.
