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Explain Named Entity Recognition

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MediumNLPText ClassificationNamed Entity RecognitionTokenizationAsked 1 times

Problem

Scenario

You're working on an NLP system that needs to identify structured facts like people, organizations, locations, dates, and product names directly from raw text. A common way to do this is named entity recognition.

Question

What is named entity recognition?

What This Tests

  • Understanding of named entity recognition as a sequence labeling task
  • How tokenization interacts with entity boundaries
  • How transformer language models are fine-tuned for token classification
  • How NER systems are evaluated with span-level F1
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