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OpenNLP NameFinder training, "Found unexpected annotation"

In training my NameFinderME, I get the following error message:

My data looks as follows: <START someTag> some text <END>

Computing event counts... java.io.IOException: Found unexpected annotation:

In everything else Google has found me for this error message, it's always a simple error in the spacing of the training data (e.g., change <START:entity>some text<END> to <START:entity> some text <END> . This isn't applicable to me (it's all correctly spaced.) It's all UTF-16, and specified to be so when I set up the objects to do the training. Any ideas on what could be wrong?

Thank you,

WalrusTheCat

Solution

  • The data is incorrect. Instead of <START someTag> I need <START:someTag>. I was using a space instead of a colon.