What would you like to find out about your data? Until we know that it is difficult to recommend a technique.
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Thilo Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22.06.2012 20:13, daniel stieger wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> i m looking for some suggestions and opinions for my task. The situation >> is this: >> >> In an online survey approx. 800 participants were asked a open text >> question like "What do you associate with our brand?". Participants can then >> enter 5 associations. Eg. >> >> - nature >> - beautifull mountains >> - relax >> - family friendly >> - very good service >> >> >> Now i just want to run the openNLP Post tagger over all associations. I >> suppose that i can use one association just as one sentence. Instead of the >> english model, i used the de-maxent.bin model and some german answers. But >> the tags are somehow wrong. Eg. >> >> sonne -> KON >> familie -> ART (it is a noun, definitely not an aricle) >> >> Am I on a wrong path? Should i handle my data differently? Or should i >> download an other model? Where can i get trainingdata ?? >> >> So many questions.. sorry.. but every hint appreciated, >> >> best, >> Daniel >> >> > > I'm pretty sure the model was trained on complete sentences. The > tagging takes context into account, and will not work properly > without it. So just running it on a couple of words at a time > will not work. > > If all your associations are NPs like your example, > you can maybe fix things by always prefixing "I like the ". In > German, maybe "Ich liebe ". > > HTH, > Thilo > > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
