We will demonstrate the NER process using OpenNLP, Stanford API, and LingPipe. Each of these provide alternative techniques that can often do a good job of identifying entities in the text. The following declaration will serve as the sample text to demonstrate the APIs:
String sentences[] = {"Joe was the last person to see Fred. ", "He saw him in Boston at McKenzie's pub at 3:00 where he " + " paid $2.45 for an ale. ", "Joe wanted to go to Vermont for the day to visit a cousin who " + "works at IBM, but Sally and he had to look for Fred"};