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Top 23 Python named-entity-recognition Projects
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HanLP
Natural Language Processing for the next decade. Tokenization, Part-of-Speech Tagging, Named Entity Recognition, Syntactic & Semantic Dependency Parsing, Document Classification
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Project mention: SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-23
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NLP-progress
Repository to track the progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), including the datasets and the current state-of-the-art for the most common NLP tasks.
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Project mention: WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-21
only the last string is a LOC named entity. Of course you can change definitions from the standard ones if you like, but then you should be careful not to compare with tools that use the original standard definition of NER such as flairNLP [1].
[1] https://github.com/flairNLP/flair?tab=readme-ov-file
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Stanza
Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages
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Project mention: Conversational AI and the Evolution of Search: Redefining How We Find Information | dev.to | 2025-01-29
DeepPavlov: A conversational AI library for building multi-skill chatbots and virtual assistants.
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presidio
An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines.
Project mention: How We Integrate AI in epilot - Chapter 2: Serverless RAG w/ LangChain & Weaviate | dev.to | 2025-05-26Presidio
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simpletransformers
Transformers for Information Retrieval, Text Classification, NER, QA, Language Modelling, Language Generation, T5, Multi-Modal, and Conversational AI
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GLiNER
Generalist and Lightweight Model for Named Entity Recognition (Extract any entity types from texts) @ NAACL 2024
Project mention: Navigating the Cybersecurity Maze: Challenges and Solutions in AI Agent Development | dev.to | 2025-02-26PII and Secret Detection: This involves identifying and removing personally identifiable information (PII) or secrets from the data. Tools like Presidio and GLiNER are great for this purpose. The following Python code demonstrates how to use Guardrails to detect PII and secrets in text:
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NCRFpp
NCRF++, a Neural Sequence Labeling Toolkit. Easy use to any sequence labeling tasks (e.g. NER, POS, Segmentation). It includes character LSTM/CNN, word LSTM/CNN and softmax/CRF components.
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entity-recognition-datasets
A collection of corpora for named entity recognition (NER) and entity recognition tasks. These annotated datasets cover a variety of languages, domains and entity types.
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seqeval
A Python framework for sequence labeling evaluation(named-entity recognition, pos tagging, etc...)
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NameDataset
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nlu
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camel_tools
A suite of Arabic natural language processing tools developed by the CAMeL Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python named-entity-recognition discussion
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Index
What are some of the best open-source named-entity-recognition projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | HanLP | 35,542 |
| 2 | spaCy | 32,385 |
| 3 | NLP-progress | 22,924 |
| 4 | flair | 14,275 |
| 5 | Stanza | 7,575 |
| 6 | DeepPavlov | 6,924 |
| 7 | presidio | 5,463 |
| 8 | simpletransformers | 4,213 |
| 9 | DeepKE | 4,098 |
| 10 | GLiNER | 2,290 |
| 11 | NCRFpp | 1,895 |
| 12 | entity-recognition-datasets | 1,548 |
| 13 | spacy-llm | 1,303 |
| 14 | BERT-NER | 1,241 |
| 15 | seqeval | 1,149 |
| 16 | name-dataset | 939 |
| 17 | nlu | 936 |
| 18 | ckip-transformers | 740 |
| 19 | BERTweet | 594 |
| 20 | camel_tools | 482 |
| 21 | GoLLIE | 392 |
| 22 | zshot | 385 |
| 23 | huspacy | 171 |
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