nlp-ner-tagging

Implemented a NER Tagging algorithm with Hidden Markov Model:

• Implementing Learning (Counting) and Decoding (Viterbi)
• Training the system on Wikipedia ENG and ITA
  • https://github.com/Babelscape/wikineural/tree/master/data/wikineural/en
  • https://github.com/Babelscape/wikineural/tree/master/data/wikineural/it
• Evaluate the system, using different strategies of smoothing for ENG and ITA
• Evaluate against an easy baseline and a difficult one

Results

96.32% accuracy for IT and 97.44% for ENG.

For more details see the report.