YooName

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Overview:

YooName is Named Entity Recognition software based on semi-supervised learning.
It identifies nine named entity categories that are split into more than 100 sub-categories:

Person: celebrities, characters, vocations, titles, first name, last name, etc.
Organization: company, military, government, political party, sport team, etc.
Location: city, state, country, landform, water form, astral body, etc.
Facility: skyscraper, school, airport, road, bridge, park, monument, etc.
Product: vehicle, art, media, weapon, food, clothes, drug, etc.
Event: game, war, hurricane, crime, conference, etc.
Natural object: insect, animal, vegetable, mineral, etc.
Unit: currency, month, weekday, measure, etc.
Miscellaneous: disease, religion, language, award, academic, etc.

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Features:

The YooName database and rule system are built using semi-supervised learning techniques.

The system learns to recognize named entities independently by analyzing very large amounts of Web data. It has two advantages over handmade and supervised learning-based systems:

Extensibility: YooName can learn to recognize virtually any named entity type.. just name it!
Self-maintenance: YooName maintains and updates its database automatically by continuously crawling the Web.

See YooName in action:

>> Try it

>> See an example