Name Identification and Tracing

Overview:

A given entity - representing a person, a location, or an organization - may be mentioned in text in multiple, ambiguous ways. Understanding natural language and supporting intelligent access to textual information require identifying whether different mentions of a name, within and across documents, represents the same entity. We demonstrate a browsing tool that incorporates some of our newly developed Machine Learning based technologies in this area. I enables users to trace different mentions of the same entity, presented in different textual forms, across documents.