named entity recognition; NER
Technical term in natural language processing for identifying and classifying named entities (persons, organizations, locations, etc.) in text.
Named entity recognition is a technique for automatically extracting person names and place names from text.
In this paper, we evaluated the accuracy of Japanese named entity recognition.
情報抽出 (information extraction) is a broader task that includes named entity recognition as a subtask.
形態素解析 (morphological analysis) is a lower-level NLP task that segments text into morphemes, often used as a preprocessing step for NER.
Compound of 固有 (inherent, proper) + 表現 (expression) + 抽出 (extraction), calque of English 'named entity extraction'.