NLTK Named Entity Recognition with Custom Data

Question

I\'m trying to extract named entities from my text using NLTK. I find that NLTK NER is not very accurate for my purpose and I want to add some more tags of my own as well. I

Answer 1

Are you committed to using NLTK/Python? I ran into the same problems as you, and had much better results using Stanford's named-entity recognizer: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml. The process for training the classifier using your own data is very well-documented in the FAQ.

If you really need to use NLTK, I'd hit up the mailing list for some advice from other users: http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-users.

Hope this helps!