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Detect person names in text: Part 2 (Technical)

Jan ProcházkaJanuary 19, 2021Deep Learning, Personal Data, Whitepaper

Neural network architecture

In Detect Person Names in Text: Part 1 (Results), we benchmarked our new named entity recognizer (NER) against popular open source alternatives, such as Stanford NER, Stanza and SpaCy. Today we dig a little deeper into the NER architecture and technical details.

Detect person names in text: Part 1 (Results)

Jan ProcházkaJanuary 14, 2021Deep Learning, Personal Data, Whitepaper

F1 scores for different software doing personal name detection.

Detecting people’s names is part and parcel of PII discovery. Traditional techniques like regexps and keywords don’t work, because the set of all names is too varied. How do open source Named Entity Recognition (NER) engines compare, and can we do better?

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Data science engineer at PII Tools in one life. Accredited physiotherapist in another.

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