Named Entity Recognition NER

Named Entity Recognition research project, the main idea is classify entities in classes like: Person (PER) Location (LOC) Organization (ORG) Miscellaneous (MISC) Other (O)

Requirements

Python 2.7 or above Pip for dependencies python get-pip.py

Installing

Installing dependencies

• install numpy using easy install, using sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential in linux.

• Install dependencies using the following command: sudo pip install -r dependencies

Downloading the Corpus CONLL 2002

In this lab we will use the CONLL 2002 corpus, Execute the file CorpusDownloader.py using python CorpusDownloader.py, this will launch a GUI to download the Corpus, select Corpus tab then download the CONLL 2002, then press Download button. corpus_downloader

Running the classificator

python ner.py