Named entity recognition

[naymd EN-tuh-tee reck-uhg-NISH-uhn] /neɪmd ˈɛntɪti ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃᵊn/

A task within natural language processing (NLP) to identify and classify important information from text. The information that is identified and classified is referred to as an entity. Examples of entity categories include people, location, dates and organisations.