2 minutes to read - Mar 30, 2023

Cohere tutorial: Entity extraction

VISIT

Extracting information from text is a common task in language processing. LLMs can extract entities that are difficult to extract using other NLP methods (and where pre-training provides the model with some context on these entities). This is an overview of using generative LLMs to extract entities

Table of Contents

1Conclusion

First of all, register to Cohere https://dashboard.cohere.ai/register

After registration you need to head over to the Playground https://os.cohere.ai/playground

Next, we can check out the Cohere Playground.The Cohere Classify Playground is a great tool for testing your ideas and getting started with a project. It has a clean UI and can export your code in multiple languages.

We will choose generate endpoint with default language model.

For this example I will use the Extract entities from Invoices example. And rewrite it just to show how great this model is.

We will extract names from sentences. You can paste the following sentences in the Playground and see how the model extracts the names.