Strategies for recognizing proper nouns in NLP

Question

I\'m interested in learning more about Natural Language Processing (NLP) and am curious if there are currently any strategies for recognizing proper nouns in a text that are

Answer 1

Besides the dictionary-based approach, two others come to my mind:

• Pattern-based approaches (in a simple form: anything that is capitalized is a proper noun)
• Machine learning approaches (mark proper nouns in a training corpus and train a classifier)

The field is mostly called named-entity extraction and often considered a subfield of information extraction. A good starting point for the different fields of NLP is usually the according chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics:

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