Named-Entity Recognition (NER)

NER is the process of identifying and categorizing named entities in a given text. Examples of categories are organizations, locations, time, names, money, and rate.

First step to annotate a NER project is to select the label from the dropdown - or press the shortcut on the keyboard - and select the part of the text you want to label. If you are going to use the same label for different parts, you don't need to select it every time.

Since the text is tokenized you don't need to select all the characters in the word or words, by just clicking on a word or selecting one or a few letters from each word is enough.

Keep in mind that tokens are based on the same type of characters. For example, for "£200m": the symbol, the numbers and the letters are three different tokens, so you would have to select all of them for the same tag.

To delete any label click on the "X".



If there is nothing to be labeled on the task or you want to delete all labels, click on the "No Annotations" button on the bottom of the task.