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Named Entity Recognition System for Urdu Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a task which helps in finding out Persons name, Location names, Brand names, Abbreviations, Date, Time etc and classifies them into predefined different categories. NER plays a major role in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) fields like Information Extraction, Machine Translations and Question Answering.We have used the Rule Based approach and developed the various rules to extract the Named Entities in the given Urdu text.  So, accurate working of NER system is very important. NER system can be used for one's personal interest like company manager wants to know all the names involved in specific text document.  Approaches to NER 1 Rule Based approach: Rules are developed to identify NE in text. This approach takes much time in development and one should have good knowledge of target language. Heuristic based rules are used to identify tags and these rules are language spec...