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The present work describes the automatic recognition of named entities based on language independent and dependent features. Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm is applied for the first time in order to learn named entities for Bengali language. We used openly available annotated corpora with twelve different tagset defined in IJCNLP-08 NERSSEAL shared task and obtained 91.23%, 87.29% and 89.69% precision, recall and F-measure respectively. The proposed work outperforms the existing models with satisfactory margin.
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Banerjee, S., Naskar, S.K., Bandyopadhyay, S. (2014). Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8655. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_16
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