nzilbb.annotator.stanfordner
Stanford Named Entity Recognizer
Annotator that tags words that are recognized as being names according to the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) developed by the Stanford Natural Language Processing Group.
| Named Entity tags: | PERSON | PERSON | LOCATION | DATE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Words: | President | Barack | Obama | was | born | in | Hawaii. | He | was | elected | in | 2008. |
When this annotator is installed, it downloads models of version 4.2.0 of the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) from https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-ner-4.2.0.zip, which requires access to the internet.
Several classifiers for English are included in the default installation. You can download classifiers for other languages from the Stanford CoreNLP site.
Different classifiers include different possible entity labels:
- 3 class: LOCATION, PERSON, ORGANIZATION
- 4 class: LOCATION, PERSON, ORGANIZATION, MISC
- 7 class: LOCATION, PERSON, ORGANIZATION, MONEY, PERCENT, DATE, TIME