I don't know specifically about NameFinderME, but with other statistical
NER systems I noticed that they tend to give a lot of weight to the fact
that a world has initial capitalization when making the decision, often
so much that it is the only feature that matters.
This is due to the fact that on cleanly written text (e.g. news
articles) this is an extremely reliable predictor. If you have other
kinds of text such as UGC (e.g. twitter) you need to train a model using
this kind of data and hope for the best. Accuracy will usually be far
below what is achieved on news articles.
Hth,
Jens
On 11/06/2013 09:37 PM, Ravi Bhargava wrote:
Currently, if a name is in lower case or completely in upper case it is not
found by NameFinderME. Please suggest how I can get it to recoginze names in
this case.
thanks,
Ravi.
