{"id":1399,"date":"2019-01-20T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T03:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-01-20T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T04:41:08","slug":"named-entity-recognition-ner-with-opennlp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/20\/named-entity-recognition-ner-with-opennlp\/","title":{"rendered":"Named Entity Recognition (NER) with OpenNLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the earlier two articles, we looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/08\/parsing-text-with-apache-opennlp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Sentence Parsing<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/chunking-in-opennlp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Chunking<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0as supported in <a href=\"https:\/\/opennlp.apache.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>OpenNLP<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. In today&#8217;s article, let us explore <em><strong>Named Entity Recognition<\/strong><\/em>, also known as <em><strong>NER<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NER<\/strong><\/em> is a technique to identify special categories of noun phrases such as <em><strong>people<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>places<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>companies<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>money<\/strong><\/em>, etc., present in the given text. This is widely used as part of information extraction. Here is a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2o6UOhvMNCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Youtube video<\/strong><\/em><\/a> on <em><strong>NER<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The two primary classes that are used for named entity recognition in <em><strong>OpenNLP<\/strong><\/em> are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TokenNameFinderModel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TokenNameFinderME<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former constructs a model from a model file, and the latter uses the model for entity recognition.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>OpenNLP<\/strong><\/em> supports <em><strong>NER<\/strong><\/em> of the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">People<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Location<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Organization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Date<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Percentage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Money<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quite broad, I would say.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the purpose of this article, I am going to work with the first three, namely, <em><strong>People<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Location<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Organization<\/strong><\/em>. It is easy to extend my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/downloads\/OpenNLPNERExample.java\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>sample code<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0to include the others too, if you want.<\/p>\n<p>First, we have to download the relevant <a href=\"http:\/\/opennlp.sourceforge.net\/models-1.5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>model files<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Here is a table that shows the model files I am using in my code:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">People \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0en-ner-person.bin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Location \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 en-ner-location.bin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Organization \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0en-ner-organization.bin<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following code snippet shows a sample session, working on three sentences.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1401\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Main.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/20\/named-entity-recognition-ner-with-opennlp\/main\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Main.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"556,381\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Admin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1547929730&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sample Session\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sample Session&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sample Session&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Main.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1401\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Main.jpg?resize=556%2C381&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sample Session\" width=\"556\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Main.jpg?w=556&amp;ssl=1 556w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Main.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Sample Session<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The output is here:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1402\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1402\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/20\/named-entity-recognition-ner-with-opennlp\/output\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"683,162\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Admin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1547929773&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Output\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Output&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Output&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1402\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg?resize=683%2C162&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Output\" width=\"683\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg?w=683&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg?resize=300%2C71&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Output.jpg?resize=680%2C162&amp;ssl=1 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Output<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can see that it is possible to get the entities as well the associated probabilities when using <em><strong>OpenNLP&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>NER<\/strong><\/em> logic. I have defined two wrapper classes to make it easy to work with <em><strong>OpenNLP<\/strong><\/em>. Ideally, they should be moved to separate source files and made public, but for ease of demonstration, I put them all in the same file (and hence they are non-public).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the wrapper classes:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1403\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wrappers.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1403\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/20\/named-entity-recognition-ner-with-opennlp\/wrappers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wrappers.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"470,586\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Admin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1547970544&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wrapper Classes\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Wrapper Classes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Wrapper Classes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wrappers.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wrappers.jpg?resize=470%2C586&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wrapper Classes\" width=\"470\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wrappers.jpg?w=470&amp;ssl=1 470w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rangakrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wrappers.jpg?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Wrapper Classes<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is quite easy to include support for the other named entities not covered in this example. You can download the source code from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/downloads\/OpenNLPNERExample.java\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0Have a nice weekend!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the earlier two articles, we looked at Sentence Parsing\u00a0and Chunking\u00a0as supported in OpenNLP. In today&#8217;s article, let us explore Named Entity Recognition, also known as NER. NER is a technique to identify special categories of noun phrases such as people, places, companies, money, etc., present in the given text. This is widely used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[107,17],"tags":[184,174,183,74,179],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-language-processing","category-programming","tag-named-entity-recognition","tag-natural-language-processing","tag-ner","tag-nlp","tag-opennlp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9OLnF-mz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1386,"url":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/chunking-in-opennlp\/","url_meta":{"origin":1399,"position":0},"title":"Chunking in OpenNLP","author":"admin","date":"January 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In my previous post, I showed how to parse sentences using OpenNLP. 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In today's article, I want to try the same (well, almost) examples in Stanford CoreNLP engine and see how they compare. 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