[Documentatio] train-ner script

[ghost]

Hi,

using the ner_conll example I found the train-ner script in MITIE/tools/ner_conll/train-ner:

./ner --train-chunker eng.train_all_some_sentences_combined $THREADS > $LOG
    ./ner --train-id      eng.train_all_some_sentences_combined $THREADS >> $LOG

    ./ner --test-id eng.testb >> $LOG
    ./ner --tag-conll-file ner_model.dat eng.testb | ./conlleval 
    echo $LOG

As I cannot find a executable called "ner" - I'm just wondering if it should be train-ner instead, but the train-ner command line arguments only provides:

parser.add_option("h", "Display this help information.");
        parser.add_option("train", "train named_entity_extractor on CoNLL data.");
        parser.add_option("test", "test named_entity_extractor on CoNLL data.");
        parser.add_option("threads", "Use <arg> threads when doing training (default: 4).",1);
        parser.add_option("tag-conll-file", "Read in a CoNLL annotation file and output a copy that is tagged with a MITIE NER model.");

See MITIE/tools/ner_conll/src/main.cpp.

So my question is if that small train_ner script should be updated then?

Thanks in advance (+ I'm really looking forward to train a model for German),

Stefan

[davisking]

The train-ner script you found is in the same folder as the ner program. Also, to train a german model you will have to use the wordrep program to train a german word model before doing any entity extraction training.