Re: Named Entity Extraction.

[Dan Brickley]

On 9 Jun 2012, at 12:09, Gaurav Sehgal <gaurav_seh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>         We are planning to deploy Mahout in our systems; to use named entity 
> extraction; Is there a specific algorithm such as Aho-Corasick Algorithm; 
> which Mahout implements for NER. I went through the Mahout website and it 
> dosen't seem to have any NER related algorithm.

Try Apache Stanbol for NER. Collocations are the closest thing in Mahout afaik.

Dan

> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Gaurav