Entity extraction

Entity extraction pulls the people, organisations, places and dates out of a document and records where each one appeared.

Once extracted, the question "everything this witness said, and everything said about them" becomes answerable in one step rather than by rereading the file.

The hard part is identity, not detection. The same person appears as a full name, a surname, an initial, an email address and a misspelling, and treating those as five people produces a profile that is worse than none.

Related: Claim, Anonymisation

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