Using the NLP APIs

We will demonstrate POS tagging using OpenNLP, Stanford API, and LingPipe. Each of the examples will use the following sentence. It is the first sentence of Chapter 5 from At A Venture, of Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne:

private String[] sentence = {"The", "voyage", "of", "the",  
    "Abraham", "Lincoln", "was", "for", "a", "long", "time", "marked",  
    "by", "no", "special", "incident."};

The text to be processed may not always be defined in this fashion. Sometimes, the sentence will be available as a single string:

String theSentence = "The voyage of the Abraham Lincoln was for a "  
    + "long time marked by no special incident.";

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