Abstract

Nowadays data is stored in digital form and Terabyte of data is generated on daily basis. It is difficult task to extract useful information from Big data efficiently. From unstructured text Information extraction is a technique which used to extract information. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an essential component of information extraction in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Further, Urdu language has various challenges to NER due to its agglutinative, inflectional nature and rich morphology. Therefore, NER systems for Urdu language are not mature yet due to lack of resources and ambiguities. This paper specifically addresses the different approaches to NER and explore the existing work for NER in Urdu language.

Details

Title
Big Data and Named Entity Recognition Approaches for Urdu Language
Author
Jamil, Qudsia; Muhammad Rehman Zafar
Section
Journal_Article
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Apr 2018
Publisher
European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
e-ISSN
20329407
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2306285172
Copyright
© 2018. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.