Though one can exploit a sophisticated named-entity tagger to extract English entities, in this paper we identify English entities based on the capitalization information.
to be considered as an entity, a continuous span of English words must satisfy the following conditions: • all words must start from a capital letter except for function words "of", "the", and "and"; • each function word can appear only once; • the number of words in the span must be smaller than a threshold (e.g., 10); • the occurrence count of this span must be greater than a threshold (e.g., 1).