Named Entity Recognition

Domain: NLP Fundamentals

🎯 Motivation

Finds and classifies names in text: people, places, organizations, dates, etc.

📋 Concrete Example

In Tim Cook visited Apple Park in Cupertino, NER finds: Tim Cook (PERSON), Apple Park (ORG), Cupertino (LOC).

🔗 Analogy

Like a highlighter that marks every proper noun and labels what kind of thing it is.