Product Name Identification and Classification in Thai Economic News

of the analysis will be presented in sections 4 and 5 followed by the conclusion. 2 Background Knowledge The purpose of this research is to analyze the patterns of the product names used in Thai economic news and to find clues that could be used to identify the product names ’ boundaries and their categories. It is found that the patterns of Thai product names are quite varied. Thirty two patterns are found in this study. While some clues like collocation and the context of names can be used for identifying product names, many of them cannot be identified by these means. This indicates that the task of product named entity recognition is an interesting task for Thai language processing.