Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

How to do it...

The following are the necessary steps:

1. Add the following import statements to the project:

import java.util.List;import edu.stanford.nlp.ie.crf.CRFClassifier;import edu.stanford.nlp.ling.CoreAnnotations;import edu.stanford.nlp.ling.CoreLabel;

2. Add the following statement to the main method. It will create an instance of the CRFClassifier class:

CRFClassifier<CoreLabel> classifier = CRFClassifier    .getClassifierNoExceptions("english.conll.4class.distsim.crf.ser.gz");

3. Insert the following statement, which will create a list of lists of entities based on the string argument of the classify method:

List<List<CoreLabel>> entityList = classifier.classify("Sam and Mary left on Friday, November 12. ");

4. Add the following code, ...