NLP
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Teaching an AI to find and label important things in text, names, companies, dates, locations, dollar amounts.
Definition
An NLP task that identifies and classifies named entities in text into predefined categories such as persons, organizations, locations, dates, and monetary values.
Why it matters
The foundation of information extraction, powers CRM auto-population, contract analysis, and news summarization.
Related terms in NLP
BERT
Google's breakthrough AI model that reads sentences in both directions at once to understand context better.
Chain of Thought (CoT)
Asking an AI to "show its work" and think step-by-step, which makes it much better at solving math and logic problems.
Context Window
The maximum amount of text an AI can read and consider at one time, like how many pages of notes it can hold in its head.
Conversational AI
AI that can have natural back-and-forth conversations with humans, chatbots, voice assistants, and customer service bots.
From vocabulary to outcomes
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