Thanks. I will check that out. Jeff
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/21/2013 10:21 PM, Jeffrey Zemerick wrote: > >> And this worked. I was just interested in why the second code worked and >> the first did not. I feel sure I had the path to the model correct in the >> first code because it showed a debug line about loading the model and >> delayed about 60 seconds. I did not see any errors - just an empty array >> of >> name spans. >> > > The model itself is just a container of all the resources the NameFinderME > needs. To detect > names, you need to instantiate the NameFinderME and feed it with > sentences. > > The documentation explains this, have a look here: > http://opennlp.apache.org/**documentation/1.5.3/manual/** > opennlp.html#tools.namefind.**recognition.api<http://opennlp.apache.org/documentation/1.5.3/manual/opennlp.html#tools.namefind.recognition.api> > > Also have a look at the JavaDocs of the NameFinderME. > > The sentences don't need to be read from the command line, the samples > just do this > for illustrations purposes. In a production system you probably have some > kind of data base > which contains everything, > > HTH, > Jörn >
