In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Chunking and chinking with regular expressions
Merging and splitting chunks with regular expressions
Expanding and removing chunks with regular expressions
Partial parsing with regular expressions
Training a tagger-based chunker
Classification-based chunking
Extracting named entities
Extracting proper noun chunks
Extracting location chunks
Training a named entity chunker
Training a chunker with NLTK-Trainer