... Proceedingsof the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora.Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, Masaki Murata, Hi-romi Ozaku, Masao Utiyama, and Hitoshi Isahara.2000. Named entity extraction based on a maxi-mum ... .According to this ordering, two candidates canhave the same rank. One of them might assert that a certain word is an organization’s name and an-other candidate might assert that it is a person’sname. ... charac-ters are used in Japanese: hiragana, katakana,kanji, symbols, numbers, and letters of the Ro-man alphabet. We use 17 character types forwords, e.g., single-kanji, all-kanji,all-katakana,...