Exact Dictionary based Named Entity Recognition with Stanford

Question

I have a dictionary of named entities, extracted from Wikipedia. I want to use it as the dictionary of an NER. I wanted to know how can I use Stanford-NER with this data of mine. I have also downloaded Lingpipe, although I have no idea how can I use it. I would appreciate all kinds of information.

Thanks for your helps.

Answer 1

You can use dictionary (or regular expression-based) named entity recognition with Stanford CoreNLP. See the RegexNER annotator. For some applications, we run this with quite large dictionaries of entities. Nevertheless, for us this is typically a secondary tool to using statistical (CRF-based) NER.