On 05/03/2012 10:58 AM, Jim - FooBar(); wrote:
I can also provide the "AggregateNameFinder" class which takes any
number of name-finders and merges their results in order to get better
evaluation statistics. Internally, it uses the
"NameFinderME.dropOverlappingSpans()" method to get rid of nested
spans, which however does the simplistic thing of keeping the earliest
span (ignoring the type of the span completely). I think being able to
merge results from several name-finders is a killer feature that a lot
of people will appreciate even if i don't think keeping the earliest
span is sensible when trying to evaluate several finders on multiple
entity types...
+1 to implement it based on NameFinderME.dropOverlappingSpans.
In my opinion that is still a good baseline. We can come up with more
specialized and sophisticated
approaches e.g. based on probabilities and limited for statistical name
finders.
Jörn
