Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays an important role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as; Information Extraction (IE), Question Answering (QA), Text Clustering, Text Summarization and Word Sense Disambiguation. This paper presents the development and implementation of domain independent system to recognize three types of Arabic named entities. The system works based on a set of domain independent grammar-rules along with Arabic part of speech tagger in addition to

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... zetteers and lists of trigger words. The experimental results shown, that the system performed as good as other systems with better results in some cases of cross-domains corpora. Downloaded From: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 08/04/2016 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx Proc. of SPIE Vol. 10011 100111I-2 Downloaded From: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 08/04/2016 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx