How to achieve Named Entity Recognition (NER) using C# asp.net

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How to achieve Named Entity Recognition (NER) using C# asp.net

coder rock 436

When we read a text, we naturally recognize named entities like people, values, locations, and so on. For example, in the sentence “Mark Zuckerberg is one of the founders of Facebook, a company from the United States” we can identify three types of entities:

“Person”: Mark Zuckerberg

“Company”: Facebook

“Location”: United States

I don't want any third-party applications that require payment. I prefer free third-party applications or ones that use other programming logic.

Lan Huang-MSFT 30,191 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-06-19T03:31:03.7166667+00:00

Hi @coder rock,

We are unable to provide you with third party tools as this is outside the scope of our support.

Maybe you can try Azure AI services. The following document has detailed steps.

Quickstart: Use the NER client library - Azure AI services
coder rock 436 Reputation points

2024-06-19T13:38:30.8533333+00:00

I am looking for a free AI service not paid AI Services.
Bruce (SqlWork.com) 78,006 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2024-06-19T16:04:22.9566667+00:00

the major open source models are in python (spaCy, nltk, and flair). You should be able to setup a python api website that your .net code calls.
Key PI 0 Reputation points

2025-04-12T19:45:33.1233333+00:00

@Bruce (SqlWork.com) This completely miss the quesiton asked. It's nto helpful at all.

The question was clearly about a free service or library for .NET, i.e. how to accomlish that with something like ONNX.

Microsoft messes up a lot here, add libraries but provide no examples, so no one adapts, even though a lot of people are looking for that.

People are not intersted in some inefficient/unfamiliar pyhton code. C#/.NET is by many orders of magnitude more efficient and faster than python. Have you ever looked at the techempower benchmarks?!?

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Lan Huang-MSFT 30,191 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-06-19T03:31:03.7166667+00:00

Hi @coder rock,

We are unable to provide you with third party tools as this is outside the scope of our support.

Maybe you can try Azure AI services. The following document has detailed steps.

Quickstart: Use the NER client library - Azure AI services
coder rock 436 Reputation points

2024-06-19T13:38:30.8533333+00:00

I am looking for a free AI service not paid AI Services.
Bruce (SqlWork.com) 78,006 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2024-06-19T16:04:22.9566667+00:00

the major open source models are in python (spaCy, nltk, and flair). You should be able to setup a python api website that your .net code calls.
Key PI 0 Reputation points

2025-04-12T19:45:33.1233333+00:00

@Bruce (SqlWork.com) This completely miss the quesiton asked. It's nto helpful at all.

The question was clearly about a free service or library for .NET, i.e. how to accomlish that with something like ONNX.

Microsoft messes up a lot here, add libraries but provide no examples, so no one adapts, even though a lot of people are looking for that.

People are not intersted in some inefficient/unfamiliar pyhton code. C#/.NET is by many orders of magnitude more efficient and faster than python. Have you ever looked at the techempower benchmarks?!?

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There is no such thing as a free AI service. You'll need to either reinvent the wheel (good luck) or buy a product if you want that kind of functionality. Technically you can probably get away with natural language processing but even those aren't free, at least for good ones.

Nevertheless asking in the Q&A forum for people to run a google search and provide you the information you can get yourself seems a little much. Just google for the very thing you're looking for and follow the results. It'll be faster for you.

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