LX-NER

Provided by:
University of Lisbon (NLX-GROUP) - Natural Language and Speech Group, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences

LX-NER performs the recognition of expressions for named entities in Portuguese.

LX-NER takes a segment of Portuguese text and identifies, circumscribes and classifies the expressions for named entities it contains. Furthermore, each named entity receives a standard representation. 

It handles the following types of expressions:

  • Number-based expressions: numbers, measurements, time, addresses
  • Name-based expressions: Person names, organisations, locations, events, films, books, paintings and similar works of art.

Language Coverage
Portuguese
Target Users
  • Researchers
  • Developers
  • Students
  • Language professionals
Get Started with the service

: Free for non commercial research. To be negotiated for other usages.

Support

Helpdesk: https://portulanclarin.net/helpdesk/

Access the service

Request - Web Service : https://portulanclarin.net/workbench/lx-ner/

Web Service
The Catalogue of Services is maintained by the Service Desk of the CEF Automated Translation Platform. The service desk is funded via a contract (SMART 2016/0103) of the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme.