Notable discriminative approaches are conditional random fields (CRFs) (Lafferty et al., 2001) and structural SVM (Tsochantaridis et al., 2005).
structural SVM has built a very strong reputation for experimental accuracy in NLP tasks (Joachims et al., 2009;Tang et al., 2013;Qu et al., 2014) and for this reason we exploit it in our NER pipeline.