NameTag is an open-source tool for named entity recognition (NER). NameTag identifies proper names in text and classifies them into predefined categories, such as names of persons, locations, organizations, etc.
WebLicht Easy Chain for German Named Entity Recognition (German). The pipeline makes use of WebLicht's TCF converter, the IMS tokenizer, the IMS TreeTagger, and a German Named Entity Recognizer that has been trained based on a maximum entropy approach using the OpenNLP maxent library. WebLicht's Tundra can be used to visualize the result.