Entity annotation NLP
noun phrase
Definition: The process of marking text spans and assigning them entity labels, such as person, organization, location, or domain-specific entity types, for use in tasks such as named entity recognition, information extraction, and entity linking. In current NLP usage, the more standard and explicit term is often named entity annotation [Google Cloud NLP Documentation; Google ML Glossary].
Examples in context: “Figure 1 shows the annotation process we have followed for each milestone, where the first four focus on entity annotation, and the last four on relation annotation.” []
“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 annotation, NER labeling, span annotation, entity tagging