Named entity annotation NLP
Definition: The process of marking text spans that denote named entities and assigning them entity-type labels for use in named entity recognition and related NLP tasks. For the definitional basis, you can rely on spaCy’s description of named entities as labeled spans in text, with entity labels such as PERSON, ORG, and GPE[spaCy, Linguistic Features / Named Entity Recognition].
Example in context: “We follow the standard guidelines of named entity annotation and adopt four commonly-used types Person (PER), Location (LOC), Organization (ORG), Facility (FAC).” [Atnashev et al. 2022]
Related terms: named entity recognition; entity tagging; span annotation; entity linking