Approaches to Named Entity Recognition in Indian Languages: A Study

Abstract — Named Entity Recognition (NER) is subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify the elements in some text into pre-defined categories. NER finds its application in Natural Language Processing tasks like machine translation, question-answering systems and automatic summarization. The approaches to NER are rule based, statistics based or a combination of both. In this paper, we present a survey of these various approaches for identification of Name