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Published inDec 2016
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KUMAR ASHISH
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KUMAR ASHISH

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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Entity extraction


The process of extracting information from unstructured documents is called information extraction. In today's world, most of the data produced over the internet is semi-structured or unstructured; this data is mostly in a human-understandable format, what we call natural language, so most of the time, natural language processing comes into play during information extraction. Entity recognition is a sub process in the chain of information extraction process. NER is one of the important and vital parts of the information extraction process. NER is sometimes also called entity extraction or entity chunking .The main job of NER is to extract the rigid designators in the document and classify these elements in the text to a predefined category. The named entity extractor has a set of predefined categories such as the following:

  • persons

  • organizations

  • locations

  • time

  • money

  • percentages

  • dates

Given an unstructured document, NER will annotate the block or extract the relevant features. Consider...

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KUMAR ASHISH

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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