In a previous article, we studied training a NER (Named-Entity-Recognition) system from the ground up, using the Groningen Meaning Bank Corpus. This article is a continuation of that tutorial. The main purpose of this extension to training a NER is to: Replace the classifier with a Scikit-Learn Classifier Train a NER on a larger subset […]
What is chunking Text chunking, also referred to as shallow parsing, is a task that follows Part-Of-Speech Tagging and that adds more structure to the sentence. The result is a grouping of the words in “chunks”. Here’s a quick example:
Updates 29-Apr-2018 – Added Gist for the entire code NER, short for Named Entity Recognition is probably the first step towards information extraction from unstructured text. It basically means extracting what is a real world entity from the text (Person, Organization, Event etc …).
