How to install and invoke Stanford NERTagger?

Question

I am trying to use NLTK interface for Stanford NER in the python enviornment, nltk.tag.stanford.NERTagger.

from nltk.t         


        

Answer 1

One has to download the Stanford package independent of the NLTK download, put it in the place the path indicates and change the directory name in the path described in the NLTK document to whatever name one wants to use for the directory. It would have been nice if the NLTK documentation would state this explicitly.