Named entity recognition in the Miskolc legal corpus

In this paper, a brief study will be presented with regard to the issue of Named Entity Recognition (NER) in legal texts. To get an overall picture, we examined closely the output of two existing analysers: the “magyarlanc” linguistic processing toolkit [1] and a Named Entity Recognition system developed by the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Szeged [2]. Firstly, short references are made to named entity recognition projects in the literature considered important in the current framework. Secondly, quantitative analyses of the data will be presented. At the end of the study, some problematic cases and potential solutions will be discussed which will be followed by the discussion of the future research