Hi Raj, I believe that the NameFinder models were trained with MUC, but I am not sure. In any case, if you are going to annotate a different domain to that of MUC, you will better off annotating data for that domain because supervised approaches do not adapt well when used in other genres/domains.
HTH R On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Raj Kiran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rodrigo, > > By extending model I meant, combining the base corpora (used to train > existing model) with additional annotated text and retrain the model. > Apart from licensing, this is one of the reason I am interested in knowing > the source/base corpora used for training name finder models. > > Thanks, > Raj > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rodrigo Agerri [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Corpora used for training OpenNLP english models > > Hi Raj, > > I do not know which license the models in sourceforge are distributed under. > But you cannot extend the existing English models. You need to train new ones > for your domain based on annotated data. > > Best, > > R > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Raj Kiran <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> We want to use OpenNLP for NER and other capabilities in a commercial >> software (English only). It looks like existing OpenNLP english models >> available at sourceforge might have some license restriction. Is there any >> information available on the source corpora used for training existing >> OpenNLP english models ? >> >> Apart from purchasing the source corpora, this information would help us to >> enhance the existing models by adding more training data. >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Raj >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> > > ________________________________ >
