Also take a look at Apache OpenNLP (http://opennlp.apache.org) for NER implementations.
________________________________ From: Dan Brickley <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 7:07 AM Subject: Re: Named Entity Extraction. On 9 Jun 2012, at 12:09, Gaurav Sehgal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > We are planning to deploy Mahout in our systems; to use named entity >extraction; Is there a specific algorithm such as Aho-Corasick Algorithm; >which Mahout implements for NER. I went through the Mahout website and it >dosen't seem to have any NER related algorithm. Try Apache Stanbol for NER. Collocations are the closest thing in Mahout afaik. Dan > > Thanks for your help, > Gaurav
