I am currently working on a project in which we are using NER to to pass toponyms into the GeoEntityLinker addon for geotagging and I am passing on the locations, entities, and other info into SOLR for indexing. Over the years I have noticed that the TokenNameFinder interface does not include all the probs() methods that the NameFinderME has, and furthermore the Span object does not have a double field for storing a prob for itself. Also the sentenceDetector has a method called getSentenceProbabilities rather than probs(). When I pass the Spans into the GeoEntityLinker/EntityLinker I can't get the probs anymore because they are not in the Span objects. I can always extend Span and add the field, or keep a 2D array of the probs for each sentence, but wanted to see what everyone thinks about 1. adding the probs methods to the TokenNameFinder interface 2. adding a prob field to Span (a double) 3. Having the NameFinder return the prob with each Span so it doesn't have to be set after the call to find() using the double[] of probs 4. Have the sentencedetectorME return its spans with a prob, add probs() method to the SentenceDetector interface, and deprecate the getSentenceProbabilities...
Thoughts?
