Consider a news article about a recent SpaceX launch. The article is filled with vital information such as the name of the rocket Falcon 9, the launch site of Kennedy Space Center, the time of the launch Friday morning, and the mission goal to resupply the International Space Station.As a human reader, you can easily identify these pieces of information and understand their significance in the context of the article.Now, suppose we want to design a computer program to read this article and extract the same information. The program would need to recognize “Falcon 9” as the name of the rocket, “Kennedy Space Center” as the location, “Friday morning” as the time, and “International Space Station” as the mission goal.That’s where on September 22, 2023.5 Key Open-Source Datasets for Named Entity Recognition was originally published in Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.