# Named Entity Recognision NER

**URL:** https://discourse.numenta.org/t/named-entity-recognision-ner/4141
**Category:** NuPIC
**Created:** [July 5, 2018, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/named-entity-recognision-ner/4141 "2018-07-05T07:34:15Z")
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### Author: ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/named-entity-recognision-ner/4141/4 "2018-07-05T16:36:19Z")

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Thanks for the explanation. I could see where an HTM might help identify contextual meaning of words in sentences in combination with [cortical.io](http://cortical.io)’s semantic fingerprints, but this is an old idea that really requires [temporal pooling of sequences](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/temporal-pooling-strategies/2202).

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