... method for PER NE, LOC NE, and ORG NE are 5%, 6%, and 34% respectively. The performance for PER and LOC are above 80%, approaching the performance of supervised learning. The reason for the ... discussed. 1 Introduction Named Entity (NE) tagging is a fundamental task for natural language processing and information extraction. An NE tagger recognizes and classifies text chunks that ... containsDigitAndAlpha, containsDigitAndDash, containsDigitAndSlash, containsDigitAndComma, containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps, capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other. 6 Benchmarking and Discussion...