title: Strategies for recognizing proper nouns in NLP
body: <p>I'm interested in learning more about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing" rel="noreferrer">Natural Language Processing</a> (NLP) and am curious if there are currently any strategies for recognizing proper nouns in a text that aren't based on dictionary recognition? Also, could anyone explain or link to resources that explain the current dictionary-based methods? Who are the authoritative experts on NLP or what are the definitive resources on the subject?</p>