Location mining from text

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I'm working on a text mining problem: extract the place from the text. The place could be either only states, or more specific such as name of a neighborhood in Chicago, or even a specific address. But it's only in US.

I've been trying Yahoo Place maker api, but I can't create the api key ( the website is not responding). Is there anyway to do it, such as rapid miner, or write a comprehensive regex?

Regex would not work for this, have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9397485/regex-street-address-match — Christian Stewart, May 05 '13 at 22:55

Neil McGuigan · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-13T16:54:58.443

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Consider Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER). Online demo here:

http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/ner/process

It's a java library. License is GPL v2, though the license to distribute in a standalone app is pricey.

edited May 13 '13 at 16:54

answered May 11 '13 at 17:17

Neil McGuigan

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Is there anyway to use rapidminer for this purpose? – Dzung Nguyen May 15 '13 at 21:15
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There is the Information Extraction plugin for RapidMiner but I've tried it a few times and don't really understand it. – Neil McGuigan May 15 '13 at 21:31

Location mining from text

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