... recognition is atask in which proper nouns and nu-merical information in a document aredetected and classified into categoriessuch as person, organization, location, and date. NE recognition plays ... categories such as person, organiza-tion, location, and date. NE recognition playsan essential role in information extraction sys-tems (see MUC documents (1996)) and ques-tion answering systems ... ORGANIZATION,0,0.*:*:location-name,SHI-NAI:*:common-noun-> LOCATION,0,1.*:*:location-name,*:*:common-noun-> ORGANIZATION,0,0.The first rule extracts CNN as an organization.The second rule...