Leveraging existing tools for named entity recognition in microposts

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of microblogging services, new research challenges arise in the area of text processing. In this paper, we hypothesize that already existing services for Named Entity Recognition (NER), or a combination thereof, perform well on microposts, despite the fact that these NER services have been developed for processing long-form text documents that are well-structured and well-spelled. We test our hypothesis by applying four already existing NER services to the set of microposts of the MSM2013 IE Challenge.