How to monetize an algorithm?
gtani: Do a literature search (I'll try to find mine), whether you have a effective /original named entity recognition algo, how scalable and domain-specific it is.  This is also referred to, or covered in related research, as anaphora or antecedent resolution and co-reference / record linkage / deduplication.  sounds kinda like a gazzetteer (sp?)To quote one paper (ginormous project, 4 PI's at UIUC):http://serrano.ai.uiuc.edu/doi/==============research on methods for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is voluminous but has tended to focus on the problem in widely used languages such as English, otherWestern European languages, Arabic, and Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.