The process of chunking involves breaking a sentence into parts or chunks. These chunks can then be annotated with tags. We will use the ChunkerME class to illustrate how this is accomplished. This class uses a model loaded into a ChunkerModel instance. The ChunkerME class's chunk method performs the actual chunking process. We will also examine the use of the chunkAsSpans method to return information about the span of these chunks. This allows us to see how long a chunk is and what elements make up the chunk.
We will use the en-pos-maxent.bin file to create a model for the POSTaggerME instance. We need to use this instance to tag the text as we did in the Using OpenNLP POSTaggerME class for POS taggers section earlier ...
