named-entity-extraction

rdf representation of entity references in text

Consider a sentence like: John Smith travelled to Washington. A name tagger would identify, on a good day, 'John Smith' as a person, and 'Washington' as a place. However, without other evidence, it can't tell which of all the possible 'John Smith's in the world, or even which of the various 'Washington's, it's got. Eventually, som...