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Java for Data Science

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese
Book Image

Java for Data Science

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese

Overview of this book

para 1: Get the lowdown on Java and explore big data analytics with Java for Data Science. Packed with examples and data science principles, this book uncovers the techniques & Java tools supporting data science and machine learning. Para 2: The stability and power of Java combines with key data science concepts for effective exploration of data. By working with Java APIs and techniques, this data science book allows you to build applications and use analysis techniques centred on machine learning. Para 3: Java for Data Science gives you the understanding you need to examine the techniques and Java tools supporting big data analytics. These Java-based approaches allow you to tackle data mining and statistical analysis in detail. Deep learning and Java data mining are also featured, so you can explore and analyse data effectively, and build intelligent applications using machine learning. para 4: What?s Inside ? Understand data science principles with Java support ? Discover machine learning and deep learning essentials ? Explore data science problems with Java-based solutions
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Java for Data Science
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Preface

Implementing named entity recognition


This is sometimes referred to as finding people and things. Given a text segment, we may want to identify all the names of people present. However, this is not always easy because a name such as Rob may also be used as a verb.

In this section, we will demonstrate how to use OpenNLP's TokenNameFinderModel class to find names and locations in text. While there are other entities we may want to find, this example will demonstrate the basics of the technique. We begin with names.

Most names occur within a single line. We do not want to use multiple lines because an entity such as a state might inadvertently be identified incorrectly. Consider the following sentences:

Jim headed north. Dakota headed south.

If we ignored the period, then the state of North Dakota might be identified as a location, when in fact it is not present.

Using OpenNLP to perform NER

We start our example with a try-catch block to handle exceptions. OpenNLP uses models that have been trained...