Despite many recent papers on Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the news domain, little work has been done on microblog NER. NER on microblogs presents many complications such as informality of language, shortened named entities, brevity of expressions, and inconsistent capitalization (for...

In order to construct the inventory, we firstly compiled a species name dictionary by combining all of the names available in Catalogue of Life (CoL), Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The terms contained in this dictionary were then located within ...

The U-Compare Workbench is a graphical user interface that operates on top of the U-Compare platform. The U-Compare platform allows users to build and evaluate NLP workflows. Workflows consist of one or more components, consisting of corpus readers and tools, such as tokenisers, POS taggers, name...

Web service created by exporting UIMA-based workflow from the U-Compare text mining system. Functionality: Identifies biomedical named entities (genes and proteins) in plain text. Also identifies sentences. Tools in workflow: Cafetiere Sentence Splitter (University of Manchester), NEMine (Univ...

Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby. The Treat project aims to build a language- and algorithm- agnostic NLP framework for Ruby with support for tasks such as document retrieval, text chunking, segmentation and tokenization, natural language pa...

LX-NER is a freely available online service for the recognition of expressions for named entities in Portuguese. It was developed and is maintained by the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group at the University of Lisbon, Department of Informatics. LX-NER takes a segment of Portuguese text an...