Having trouble using Spanish name finder

[Chris Deese <cd...@gmail.com>]

I've been trying to use the Spanish name finder but it keeps throwing me
wierd problems I can't find much of a pattern to.

An array of strings such as {"Fuente", "Benavides", " Rafael"} will return
that the entire array is a span. However if I insert something like
"tractor" into the array only names AFTER that string will be in the span.

I'm sorry if this formatting is terrible, I can only send from mobile at
this time.

Re: Having trouble using Spanish name finder

[Chris Deese <cd...@gmail.com>]

OK thank you I'll try that!

Re: Having trouble using Spanish name finder

[Rodrigo Agerri <ra...@apache.org>]

Hi,

Are you feeding the nameFinder object "a full sentence" tokenized
where each token in the sentence is a item in the String array?
If you just feed an array with a list of names or a list of anything
the namefinder will not work. It needs to get tokenized and (whenever
possible) grammatical sentences.

Rodrigo

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Chris Deese <cd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My code is copy and paste of this blogs name finder example
> http://www.programcreek.com/2012/05/opennlp-tutorial/
>
> I'm using es-ner-person.bin as the model (or whatever the base es
> namefinder model is)

Re: Having trouble using Spanish name finder

[Chris Deese <cd...@gmail.com>]

My code is copy and paste of this blogs name finder example
http://www.programcreek.com/2012/05/opennlp-tutorial/

I'm using es-ner-person.bin as the model (or whatever the base es
namefinder model is)

Re: Having trouble using Spanish name finder

[Rodrigo Agerri <ra...@apache.org>]

Hi Chris,

It looks to me as if your problem is not only the Spanish name finder,
but the data structures used to store the results of the name finders
in arrays of Strings or Spans.
Perhaps whenever you have computer access you could send a sample of your code?

Which Spanish models are you using, BTW?

Thanks,

Rodrigo


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Chris Deese <cd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to use the Spanish name finder but it keeps throwing me
> wierd problems I can't find much of a pattern to.
>
> An array of strings such as {"Fuente", "Benavides", " Rafael"} will return
> that the entire array is a span. However if I insert something like
> "tractor" into the array only names AFTER that string will be in the span.
>
> I'm sorry if this formatting is terrible, I can only send from mobile at
> this time.