Stanford NER tagger generates 'file not found' exception with provided models

Question

I downloaded stanford NER 3.4.1, unpacked it, and tried to run named entity recognition on a local file using the default (provided) trained model. I got this:

Answer 1

This was an error in the model files accompanying the initial release of the v3.4.1 code, and has been fixed. Re-download and all should run fine, without requiring the symlink workaround.