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Evaluation Framework for Information Extraction

In this blog post we cover the process, requirements, and the design of an evaluation framework for NLP and Information Extraction. We cover the reasoning behind such a framework, and discuss its implementation with examples from a Named Entity Recognition evaluation point of view.

Permissively-Licensed Named Entity Recognition on the JVM

The ability to correctly identify entities, such as places, people, and organizations, adds a powerful level of natural language understanding to applications. This post introduces a MIT-licensed one-click deployment to Azure for web services that lets developers get started with a wide range of natural language tasks in 5 minutes or less, by consuming simple HTTP services for language identification, tokenization, part-of-speech-tagging and named entity recognition.