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

some toolkits suggested: 1. Opennlp: there is a Named Entity Recognition component for your task 2. LingPipe: also a NER component for it 3. Stanford NLP package: excellent package for academic usage, maybe not commercial friendly. 4. nltk: a Python NLP package