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  <Title>Language Independent NER using a Maximum Entropy Tagger</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems need to integrate a wide variety of information for optimal performance. This paper demonstrates that a maximum entropy tagger can effectively encode such information and identify named entities with very high accuracy. The tagger uses features which can be obtained for a variety of languages and works effectively not only for English, but also for other languages such as German and Dutch.</Paragraph>
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