Yes, it does. Include a blank between any element, including punctuations and annotations. The corpus must be tokenized.
2013/10/14 Thomas Zastrow <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I have a question: when creating training material, does it make a > difference if there are " " (blanks) around the NE? In other words, is > it the same to have: > > <START:loc>Hamburg<END> > > or: > > <START:loc> Hamburg <END> > > The example in the documentation shows up with the " " ... ? > > Best, > > Tom > > P.S.: ca. 1300 sentences for a free German NE model are done :-) >
