Survey of Named Entity Recognition Techniques for Various Indian Regional Languages

Abstract

Named entity recognition is a process and study of identification of entities that are proper nouns and classifying them to their appropriate pre-defined class, also called as tag.Named entity recognition is also called as entity chunking, entity identification and entity extraction.It is a sub task of information extraction, where structured text is extracted from unstructured text.Popular applications of NER are machine translation, text mining, data classification, question answering system.This paper presents a survey of different NERC techniques, approach, observations and features for Indian regional languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Oriya.