askeluv / named-entity-recognition

Named Entity Recognition example

named-entity-recognition

Program which finds persons in web data.

Usage:

To extract person names from a url, run:

java NamedEntityRecognition <url>

To evaluate performance (precision, recall) on a test case, run:

java NamedEntityRecognition --evaluate <testFilePath>

See test-data/oracle.json for an example of a test case file.

Note that the lib folder contains the required external JARs (Stanford NER, Apache Tika, JSON Simple).