DictionaryNameFinder cross-validation?

[Jim - FooBar();]

Hey guys,

First of all i can imagine you must be sick and tired of me reporting a 
bug or improvement every single day!That is the nature of open-source 
though isn't it? :-)

Today's issue came literally out of nowhere! Again it has to do with 
cross-validation but with the DictionaryNameFinder this time - NOT the 
maxent model...Ok, here goes:

Basically, both the maxentNameFinder and the DictionaryNameFinder can do 
NER. Also both classes implement TokenNameFinder so from Java's 
perspective either can be passed as argument to the 
TokenNameFinderCrossValidator constructor...However, i tried doing that 
this morning, in an effort to get some numbers my dictionary, and all i 
get is 0 precision, 0 recall and -1 FMeasure, regardless of finding 
loads of drugs! I think (not 100% sure) the problem is that the 
CrossValidator expects annotated text (in order to verify) but the 
DictionaryNameFinder can only be deployed on un-annotated text...To be 
honest i don't see any other reason why it won't use the dictionary 
instead of the model since both classes conform to the same interface - 
otherwise Java would complain!

Any ideas?


Jim

p.s: i 'm not sure if i can call this a bug or a massive 
improvement...it all started when i started thinking how i can evaluate 
my trained model when it joins forces with the dictionary...i can see 
with my eyes there is some improvement but it is crucial that i get some 
numbers...