Package edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer

Finds named entities in text.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
NameRecognizer	Interface for a Name Recognizer.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractNameRecognizer	Abstract Name Recognizer.
DefaultNameRecognizer	DefaultNameRecognizer extracts proper names from text.
NamePosition	Records name position in tokenized text.
NameRecognizerFactory	NameRecognizer factory.
Names	Extract person and place names from text.

Package edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer Description

Finds named entities in text.

Literary texts are filled with names of people and places. MorphAdorner includes a simple name recognizer for extracting names to allow building lists of characters and geographical settings. MorphAdorner uses simple rule-based pattern recognition methods along with proper name word lists and gazeteers to locate probable names in a text.

All MorphAdorner name recognizers must implement the NameRecognizer interface. The NameRecognizerFactory provides the mechanism for instantiating a default or specified instance of a name recognizer implementation. You may extend the AbstractNameRecognizer to create a new name recognizer.