It's a view that goes back to at least John Locke, who argued that while "human being" is a biological category, "person" is not.
Finally, we have grouped the set of connected components C i in two categories: person and non-person.
Specifically, we build an entity extractor for categories Person and Organization, which are entities that have a finite set of identifiers.
With the help of the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer NERR) using predefined models for English (Finkel et al. 2005), we extracted entities falling into one of the following categories: PERSON, LOCATION, and ORGANIZATION.
We used the two specific categories, Person and Organization, they are among the top most heavily utilized categories in information retrieval systems across domains, thus they can be used to further improve the NER system's precision and expand its scope through machine learning.
As with recall, recognition performance was good for all categories (Person fact recognition: M = 87%, SD = 17%; Building: M = 77%, SD = 17%; Hammer: M = 74%, SD = 24%).
Despite a lack of data material, it was possible to identify various factors influencing women's willingness to participate in medicinal studies and group them into three categories: person-related, study-related, and physician-related.
The various factors influencing participation in breast cancer medicinal research identified in the nine studies were placed by the authors into three categories: person-related, physician-related and study-related.
Under the Competition Act 1998, Ofcom can impose interim measures in order to "prevent significant damage to a particular person or category of person".
