Hindi Named Entity Recognition By Aggregating Rule Based Heuristics and Hidden Markov Model

Abstract

Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the applications of Natural Language Processing and is regarded as the subtask of information retrieval. NER is the process to detect Named Entities (NEs) in a document and to categorize them into certain Named entity classes such as the name of organization, person, location, sport, river, city, country, quantity etc. In English, we have accomplished lot of work related to NER. But, at present, still we have not been able to achieve much of the success pertaining to NER in the Indian languages. The following paper discusses about NER, the various approaches of NER, Performance Metrics, the challenges in NER in the Indian languages and finally some of the results that have been achieved by performing NER in Hindi by aggregating approaches such as Rule based heuristics and Hidden Markov Model (HMM).