how to use Entity Recognition with Apache solr and LingPipe or similar tools

Question

I would like to use NLP while indexing the data with Apache Solr.

1. Identify the synonyms of the words and index that also.

2. Identify thenamed entity and label it while indexing.

3. when some one query the Solr Index, I should able to extract the named entity and intention from the query and form the query string, so that it can effectively search the indexed file.

Is there any tools / plugins available to satisfy my requirements? I believe it is a common use cases for most of the content based websites. How people handling it?

Answer 1

Here's a tutorial on using Stanford NER with SOLR.

Answer 2

Check out Apache UIMA

Specifically, if you need Solr to do named entity recognition, you can integrate it with UIMA using SolrUIMA

Check out this talk, that demonstrates UIMA + Solr.