Using a chunker to find entities

In this recipe, we will illustrate another chunker to find entities. A chunk is an object that represents information about data. In this case, it will represent information about entities. We will use the LingPipe NLP API to illustrate this approach.

This use of a chunker differs in that it does not use regular expressions. Instead, we will use a model trained to find entities and use the model in conjunction with a chunker.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

1. Create a new Maven project.
2. Add the following dependency to the POM file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.julielab</groupId>
    <artifactId>aliasi-lingpipe</artifactId>
    <version&gt...