On 8/13/11 10:37 AM, James wrote:
I would like to use a dictionary to help the name finder find directions and a pattern to help the name finder find strengths. I am currently training the model for both strength and direction together. And I extract the entities together as well.
I also tried this once, but believe that our current setup works better when you train a model per type. You can easily verify if it makes a difference for you with our built-i n evaluation.
How would I go about configuring the required dictionaries and patterns for these entities? I get the feeling that features should help me do this but I am completely baffled with how to start integrating those and how they would work for the different entities.
I suggest that you write a custom feature generator to experiment with, we still do not have dictionary support out of the box, but it can very easily be added. Do you know how to implement your own feature generator? In our next version (1.5.2) we will have configurable feature generation for the name finder with an xml file, that will ease up your use case. Maybe you want to try this out, for that you need to get the current trunk version. In case you use maven you can just depend on our snapshot version. Jörn
