Named Entity Recognition (NER) with BERT in Spark NLP

Photo by Jasmin Ne on UnsplashNER is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc. NER is used in many fields in Natural Language Processing (NLP), and it can help to answer