NameTag
NameTag is an open-source tool for named entity recognition (NER). NameTag identifies proper names in text and classifies them into predefined categories, such as names of persons, locations, organizations, etc.
NameTag 3 achieves state-of-the-art performance on 21 test datasets in 15 languages: Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Tagalog, and Ukrainian. It also delivers competitive results on Arabic, Dutch, German, Maghrebi, and Spanish, as of February 2025.
The service is freely available for testing. Respect the CC BY-NC-SA licence of the models – explicit written permission of the authors is required for any commercial exploitation of the system. If you use the service, you agree that data obtained by us during such use can be used for further improvements of the systems at UFAL. All comments and reactions are welcome.
