Formatting NER output from Stanford Corenlp

Question

I am working with Stanford CoreNLP and using it for NER. But when I extract organization names, I see that each word is tagged with the annotation. So, if the entity is \"NE

Answer 1

If you just want the complete strings of each named entity found by Stanford NER, try this:

String text = "";
AbstractSequenceClassifier ner = CRFClassifier.getDefaultClassifier();
List> entities = ner.classifyToCharacterOffsets(text);
for (Triple entity : entities)
    System.out.println(text.substring(entity.second, entity.third), entity.second));

In case you're wondering, the entity class is indicated by entity.first.

Alternatively, you can use ner.classifyWithInlineXML(text) to get output that looks like Bill Smith went to Paris .