Multi-term named entities in Stanford Named Entity Recognizer

Question

I\'m using the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml and it\'s working fine. This is

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Answer 1

List> out = classifier.classify(text);
for (List sentence : out) {
    String s = "";
    String prevLabel = null;
    for (CoreLabel word : sentence) {
      if(prevLabel == null  || prevLabel.equals(word.get(CoreAnnotations.AnswerAnnotation.class)) ) {
         s = s + " " + word;
         prevLabel = word.get(CoreAnnotations.AnswerAnnotation.class);
      }
      else {
        if(!prevLabel.equals("O"))
           System.out.println(s.trim() + '/' + prevLabel + ' ');
        s = " " + word;
        prevLabel = word.get(CoreAnnotations.AnswerAnnotation.class);
      }
    }
    if(!prevLabel.equals("O"))
        System.out.println(s + '/' + prevLabel + ' ');
}

I just wrote a small logic and it's working fine. what I did is group words with same label if they are adjacent.