Learn what named-entity recognition (NER) is, as well as some of its applications. You will be introduced to some of the features that NER systems use in the decision making process, such as wordshape, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, and the use of neighboring words. Your assignment will be to evaluate three different models of NER classifiers.

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