NameTag
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NameTag is an open-source tool for named entity recognition (NER). NameTag
identifies proper names in text and classifies them into predefined categories,
such as names of persons, locations, organizations, etc. NameTag is distributed
as a standalone tool or a library, along with trained linguistic models. In the
Czech language, NameTag achieves state-of-the-art performance (Straková et al.
2013 (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~straka/papers/2013-tsd_ner.pdf)). NameTag is a
free software under LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) license and the
linguistic models are free for non-commercial use and distributed under CC
BY-NC-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) license, although
for some models the original data used to create the model may impose additional
licensing conditions.

Copyright 2014 by Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

NameTag website http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/nametag contains download links of both
the released packages and trained models, hosts documentation and offers online
demo.

NameTag development repository http://github.com/ufal/nametag is hosted on
GitHub.