Kensho NERD

NERD for people now leverages S&P Global's Professionals dataset to provide a richer understanding of millions of professionals. When you submit a document to NERD, it will now identify people in text and provide their Professional ID.

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Kensho NERD (Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation) is a cutting-edge machine learning system that unlocks the full potential of your textual data by linking it to existing sources of structured knowledge. Trained on millions of business-related documents, NERD is the only technology on the market specifically optimized to extract financial entity information from text documents.

With NERD you can:

  • Uncover the companies, subsidiaries, other financial organizations, and people that appear in your textual data, powering smart search and supercharged research workflows
  • Link those entities to their entries in S&P Global's rich Capital IQ database, augmenting your textual data by making new connections and enabling deeper insights
  • Leverage the unique power of NERD's AI to find the people, places, products, and events with NERD's Wikimedia engine, which links to a broad knowledge base containing tens of millions of entities
  • Discover powerful synergies when you combine NERD with other Kensho AI-enabled services including Link and Scribe

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Kensho is the Artificial Intelligence accelerator for S&P Global that develops cutting-edge technologies to transform businesses. Kensho's elite engineering talent uses the latest advances in machine learning and the unparalleled breadth and depth of data available at S&P Global to create new actionable insights and solutions for decision makers.


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Use Cases

S&P Global uses Kensho NERD to help clients link their textual data to the Capital IQ company database and will also offer NERD as an additional feature of the Machine Readable Transcripts and Machine Readable Filings data offerings. 

Other uses for NERD include: 
  • Real-time extraction of the key companies, events, and people in your news feed, unlocking hidden insights
  • Analysis of unstructured text, such as investigating suppliers and competitors mentioned in company filings and transcripts
  • Finding mentions of entities relevant to your work, enabling you to drill down instantaneously to the documents you need to see

Benefits

Unlock the value of your raw textual data with NERD by: 
  • Combining state-of-the-art entity recognition techniques with context-aware linking in order to extract entity information in text
  • Resolving ambiguous entity mentions, including abbreviations, acronyms, and aliases
  • Leverage one of the most expansive company databases in the world, with over 18 million entities

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