You also need examples of what is not entities.
2016-08-12 11:21 GMT-03:00 Damiano Porta <damianopo...@gmail.com>: > Hello everyone, > pardon for the stupid question but i really do not get the point about > training a maxent model with complete sentences. > > For example: > > <START:person> Pierre Vinken <END> , 61 years old , will join the board as > a nonexecutive director Nov. 29 . > > it has ~20 tokens. > As described here: > https://opennlp.apache.org/documentation/1.6.0/manual/ > opennlp.html#tools.namefind.training.featuregen > the default window should be 2 tokens on the left and 2 tokens on the right > of the entity. So, what's the point of writing the entire sentence if there > are no other entities ? > > As far i have understood it correctly, it should take into account the > Pierre Vinken (as entity name) and "," "61" as the next 2 tokens. So, why > do we need "*years old , will join the board as a nonexecutive*" ? > > Thank you in advance for the clarification! > > Best > Damiano >
