Formatting NER output from Stanford Corenlp

Question

I am working with Stanford CoreNLP and using it for NER. But when I extract organization names, I see that each word is tagged with the annotation. So, if the entity is \"NE

Answer 1

No, CoreNLP 3.5.0 has no utility to merge the NER labels. The next release (coming sometime next week) has a new MentionsAnnotator which handles this merging for you. For now, you can (a) use the MentionsAnnotator, available on the CoreNLP master branch, or (b) merge manually.

Use the -outputFormat xml option to have CoreNLP output XML. (Is this what you want?)