Named Entity Recognition (NER) Functions - Aster Analytics

Teradata AsterĀ® Analytics Foundation User GuideUpdate 2

Product
Aster Analytics
Release Number
7.00.02
Published
September 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-04-17
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Software

Named entity recognition (NER) is a process for finding specified entities in text. For example, a simple news named-entity recognizer for English might find the person "John J. Smith" and the location "Seattle" in the text string "John J. Smith lives in Seattle."

NER functions let you specify how to extract named entities when training the data models. The Aster Analytics Foundation provides two sets of NER functions: