Acquire Media is announcing, at the 2017 Gilbane Digital Content Conference, an advancement in the art of Named Entity Recognition/Linked Data Management, focusing particularly on names of companies and organizations in breaking news. Combining academic research on multiple classifiers with real-world practical algorithms for extraction, our scientists have improved on earlier approaches that use majority voting or simple Boolean functions.
“Accuracy in extracting company names from news announcements is the primary reason we buy our news from Acquire Media”, a client in financial services told Acquire Media recently, adding that “all improvements to accuracy are most welcome”.
Working with our in-house supervised-learning sets, we have developed an approach with superior recall and precision. Our training corpus improves on those of standard named-entity challenges in that, drawing on contemporary news articles, press releases and research reports, it reflects recent language changes including both newly-appearing entities and new ways of constructing entity names, tying, for example, the names Alphabet and Google together.
At Gilbane, our principal researchers, Jerry Kurlandski and Larry Rafsky will show in detail the methods used, the tips and tricks, and the pitfalls to avoid. Our goal is that, after listening to Jerry and Larry, attendees will be able to run their own studies and develop their own techniques for the data they face in their daily work.
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