Updates 29-Apr-2018 – Fixed import in extension code (Thanks Ruben) spaCy is a relatively new framework in the Python Natural Language Processing environment but it quickly gains ground and will most likely become the de facto library. There are some really good reasons for its popularity:
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 …).
