nltk StanfordNERTagger : NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory (In Windows)

Question

NOTE: I am using Python 2.7 as part of Anaconda distribution. I hope this is not a problem for nltk 3.1.

I am trying to use nltk for NER as

import nl         


        

Answer 1

The best thing to do is simply to download the latest version of the Stanford NER tagger where the dependency problem is now fixed (March 2018).

wget https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-ner-2018-02-27.zip