This paper provides a description and evaluation of a generic named-entity recognition (NER) system for Swedish applied to electronic versions of Swedish literary classics from the 19th century. We discuss the challenges posed by these texts and the necessary adaptations introduced into the NER system in order to achieve accurate results, useful both for metadata generation, but also for the en...

In this work we present a method for Named Entity Recognition (NER). Our method does not rely on complex linguistic resources, and apart from a hand coded system, we do not use any languagedependent tools. The only information we use is automatically extracted from the documents, without human intervention. Moreover, the method performs well even without the use of the hand coded system. The ex...

With the increasing popularity of microblogging services, new research challenges arise in the area of text processing. In this paper, we hypothesize that already existing services for Named Entity Recognition (NER), or a combination thereof, perform well on microposts, despite the fact that these NER services have been developed for processing long-form text documents that are well-structured ...

Current Named Entity Recognition systems suffer from the lack of hand-tagged data as well as degradation when moving to other domain. This paper explores two aspects: the automatic generation of gazetteer lists from unlabeled data; and the building of a Named Entity Recognition system with labeled and unlabeled data.

This report describes a degree project in Computer Science, the aim of which was to construct a system for Named Entity Recognition in Swedish texts of names of people, locations and organizations, as well as expressions for time. This system was constructed from the part-of-speech tagger Granska and the Support Vector Machine system SVMlin. The completed system was trained to recognize Named E...