AI Glossary Term

What does “Named Entity Recognition (NER)” mean?

Definition

An NLP task that identifies entities such as people, places, dates, or organizations.

Related terms

Sentiment Analysis
An NLP task that classifies emotional tone or opinion in text.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
The branch of AI focused on understanding and generating human language.
Algorithm
A defined set of rules or steps that a computer follows to solve a problem or complete a task.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.
Classification
A task where a model assigns an input to one or more predefined categories.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
A neural architecture optimized for processing grid-like data such as images.

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See also

Multimodal ModelModel QuantizationNeural NetworkModel DriftNormalizationModel CardOCR (Optical Character Recognition)Mixture of Experts (MoE)
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