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A.3 Guidelines That Pertain Only to PERSON

A.3.1 - Titles such as "Mr." and role names such as "President" are *not* considered part of a person name. However, appositives such as "Jr." *are* considered part of a person name.
A.3.2 - Family names are to be tagged.
A.3.3 - Miscellaneous types of proper names that are not to be tagged as PERSON include political groups, laws named after people, diseases/prizes named after people, saints.

A.3.1 Titles such as "Mr." and role names such as "President" are *not* considered part of a person name. However, appositives such as "Jr." *are* considered part of a person name.

"Mr. Harry Schearer"

Mr. <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Harry Schearer</ENAMEX>

"Secretary Robert Mosbacher"

Secretary <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Robert Mosbacher</ENAMEX>

"John Doe, Jr."

<ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">John Doe, Jr.</PERSON>

A.3.2 Family names are to be tagged.

"the Kennedy family"

the <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Kennedy</ENAMEX> family

"the Kennedys"

the <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Kennedys</ENAMEX>

[alternate form of identification of the Kennedy family entity

A.3.3 Miscellaneous types of proper names that are not to be tagged as PERSON include political groups, laws named after people, diseases/prizes named after people, saints.

"The Republicans held a rally."

The Republicans held a rally.

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"the Gramm-Rudman amendment"

the Gramm-Rudman amendment

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"Alzheimer's"

Alzheimer's

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"the Nobel prize"

the Nobel prize

[no markup]

"St. Michael"

St. Michael

[no markup]

Named Entity Task Definition - 02 JUN 95
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