Setting NLTK with Stanford NLP (both StanfordNERTagger and StanfordPOSTagger) for Spanish

Question

The NLTK documentation is rather poor in this integration. The steps I followed were:

• Download http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-postagger-

Answer 1

The error lies in the arguments written for the StanfordNerTagger function.

The first argument should be a model file or the classifier you are using. You can find that file inside the Stanford zip file. For example:

    st = StanfordNERTagger('/home/me/stanford/stanford-postagger-full-2015-04-20/classifier/tagger.ser.gz', '/home/me/stanford/stanford-spanish-corenlp-2015-01-08-models.jar')