NER Tools and Frameworks

Standalone NER tools, libraries, and annotation frameworks across programming languages and domains. Does NOT include neural architecture implementations, domain-specific medical NER, entity linking/disambiguation, or benchmarking platforms.

There are 45 ner tools and frameworks tracked. 1 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is MantisAI/nervaluate at 75/100 with 206 stars and 30,907 monthly downloads.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	MantisAI/nervaluate Full named-entity (i.e., not tag/token) evaluation metrics based on SemEval’13	75	Verified	206	Python
2	dice-group/gerbil GERBIL - General Entity annotatoR Benchmark	58	Established	230	Java
3	syuoni/eznlp Easy Natural Language Processing	56	Established	143	Python
4	OpenJarbas/simple_NER simple rule based named entity recognition	55	Established	41	Python
5	bltlab/seqscore SeqScore: Scoring for named entity recognition and other sequence labeling tasks	54	Established	23	Python
6	LHNCBC/metamaplite A near real-time named-entity recognizer	52	Established	64	Java
7	CogComp/talen A way to do annotations for NER. TALEN: Tool for Annotation of Low-resource ENtities	48	Emerging	119	Java
8	davidsbatista/NER-Evaluation An implementation of a full named-entity evaluation metrics based on...	48	Emerging	222	Python
9	jantrienes/nereval Evaluation script for named entity recognition (NER) systems based on...	46	Emerging	69	Python
10	ankane/mitie-php Named-entity recognition for PHP	46	Emerging	31	PHP
11	EuropeanaNewspapers/ner-corpora Named Entity Recognition data for Europeana Newspapers	45	Emerging	173	—
12	ankane/mitie-ruby Named-entity recognition for Ruby	44	Emerging	182	Ruby
13	davidsbatista/Annotated-Semantic-Relationships-Datasets A collections of public and free annotated datasets of relationships between...	42	Emerging	704	—
14	grobidOrg/grobid-ner A Named-Entity Recogniser based on Grobid.	42	Emerging	54	Java
15	dumitrescustefan/ronec Romanian Named Entity Corpus (RONEC) version 2.0	42	Emerging	68	Python
16	SilentFlame/Named-Entity-Recognition Corpus and a baseline neural network system for Named Entity Recognition in...	42	Emerging	46	Python
17	benbusby/namebuster A tool for enumerating usernames from text, files, or websites	41	Emerging	81	Go
18	niksrc/ner Client for Stanford Named Entity Reconginiton	41	Emerging	27	JavaScript
19	Text-Mining/Persian-NER پیکره بزرگ شناسایی موجودیت‌های نامدار فارسی برچسب خورده	41	Emerging	237	—
20	arclabs561/anno Information extraction in Rust: NER, coreference resolution, relation...	40	Emerging	6	Rust
21	StarlangSoftware/TurkishNamedEntityRecognition-Py NER Corpus Processing Library	38	Emerging	4	Python
22	LHNCBC/pymetamaplite A minimal implementation of the MetaMapLite named entity recognizer in Python,	37	Emerging	4	Python
23	arop/ner-re-pt Named entity extraction from Portuguese web text	36	Emerging	71	Python
24	undertheseanlp/ner Vietnamese Named Entity Recognition	35	Emerging	52	Python
25	Hironsan/IOB2Corpus Japanese IOB2 tagged corpus for Named Entity Recognition.	35	Emerging	61	—
26	KBNLresearch/europeananp-ner Named Entities Recognition Annotator Tool for Europeana Newspapers	35	Emerging	61	Java
27	overfit-ir/parstwiner Name Entity Recognition (NER) on the Persian Twitter dataset.	31	Emerging	53	Jupyter Notebook
28	nerel-ds/NEREL-BIO NEREL-BIO: A Dataset of Biomedical Abstracts Annotated with Nested Named Entities	31	Emerging	30	Python
29	johnsmithm/nertk Name Entity Recognition toolkit lunches Entator class - inline annotator...	31	Emerging	7	Python
30	Flight-School/ner A command-line utility for extracting names of people, places, and...	28	Experimental	72	Swift
31	StarlangSoftware/TurkishNamedEntityRecognition NER Corpus Processing Library	26	Experimental	5	Java
32	nerel-ds/NEREL NEREL: A Russian Dataset with Nested Named Entities, Relations and Events	26	Experimental	36	—
33	Chenfeng1271/awesome-MNER awesome-multimodal-named-entity-recognition	25	Experimental	61	—
34	RiTUAL-MBZUAI/multimodal_NER "Can images help recognize entities? A study of the role of images for...	23	Experimental	21	Python
35	ljos/egennavn Named-entity chunker for Norwegian	21	Experimental	8	Shell
36	KGCP/MEL-TNNT Metadata Extractor & Loader (MEL) ■ The NLP-NER Toolkit (TNNT)	20	Experimental	25	Python
37	unveiled-the-red-hat/SEE-Few Code for "SEE-Few: Seed, Expand and Entail for Few-shot Named Entity...	20	Experimental	12	Python
38	AstraZeneca/VecNER A library of tools for dictionary-based Named Entity Recognition (NER),...	20	Experimental	26	Python
39	omarmhaimdat/quickner Quickner is a new tool to quickly annotate texts for NER (Named Entity...	19	Experimental	21	Rust
40	antonio-f/Named-Entity-Recognition Recognize named entities on Twitter with LSTMs. From the Natural Language...	15	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
41	hakancangunerli/turkish_ocr_name_finder ocr and name entity recognition for classifying turkish names	14	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
42	ankush91/Ner Named Entity Recognition for Events & Temporal expressions	13	Experimental	8	TeX
43	ImMohammadHosseini/PersianNER :sparkles: Named Entity Recognition in Persian language. In this project,...	12	Experimental	3	Python
44	charlenopires/ner Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Rust	11	Experimental	—	HTML
45	Optum/nertag Automated named-entity recognition tagger	11	Experimental	—	Python

Comparisons in this category

nervaluate and NER-Evaluation (75 vs 48) nervaluate and nereval (75 vs 46) mitie-php and mitie-ruby (46 vs 44)