This article describes the participation of ERTIM (INALCO) to the French NER task of CLEF HIPE 2020 lab with the mXS system, a combination of pattern mining and machine learning, implemented in 2010-2013. Due to multiple reasons, almost no upgrades or improvements were achieved since then, only a minimal linking module and some lexical entries were added. No training and almost no adaptation were implemented for this lab. Results on historical data show severe degradations, in particular concerning the recognition of organisations.