Dataset origin: https://inventory.clarin.gr/corpus/740

Description

JRC-Names is a highly multilingual named entity resource for person and organisation names (called 'entities'). It consists of large lists of names and their many spelling variants (up to hundreds for a single person), including across scripts (Latin, Greek, Arabic, Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, etc.). In total there are 549.189 entities (names and their spelling variants in multiple languages). The named entity resource file with the list of spelling variants is accompanied by Java-implemented demonstrator software that (a) allows to produce - for any input name - a list of known spelling variants, and that (b) analyses UTF8-encoded text files to find known entity mentions, returning the name variant found, the preferred display name for that entity, the unique name identifier for that name, the position of the entity name in the text, and its length in characters.

Citation

Joint Research Centre - European Commission (2015). JRC-Names - a multilingual named entity resource. [Dataset (Lexical/Conceptual Resource)]. CLARIN:EL. http://hdl.handle.net/11500/CLARIN-EL-0000-0000-692C-A