Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) In a Box

Creates a Virtual Machine running the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer as a server, accessible on port 4465 on your host machine.

The NER Server is loaded with the 3-class Model included with the NER software package. The model applies the classes:

• Location
• Person
• Organization

Setup

1. Install Vagrant

2. Download this repo

3. From the folder contianing this README document run:

   vagrant up
   

4. That's it!

Usage

Once your server is running, the following command will process text:

$ echo "Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer on April 1, 1976" | nc localhost 4465
<PERSON>Steve Jobs</PERSON> founded <ORGANIZATION>Apple Computer</ORGANIZATION> on April 1, 1976

Details

Here are the current specifications for this server:

• NER Version: 3.6.0
• Total memory assigned to this VM: 1536 MB
• Memory assigned to the NER application: 1 GB
• Port on which the NER server is listening: 4465
• Location of the server logs on the VM: /var/log/upstart/stanford-ner.log
• Location of the model that is loaded by the server: /srv/stanford-ner/english.all.3class.distsim.crf.ser.gz