NLP-Hints uses nlp techniques such as named entity recognition to provide hints to questions about the selected text in the Text Thresher Interface.
In configs.props, set the path to TreeTagger home directory which is used in heideltime. This is currently what it looks like for me.
treeTaggerHome = /Users/manishasharma/Desktop/temp-tagger/heideltime-standalone/
mvn clean compile
mvn -q exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="annotator.Annotator" > out.json -Dexec.args="in.json"
127.001:5000/api/hints
[{
"Topic Text": "DENVER - Occupy Denver planned to hold a dance and march to mark the one yearanniversary of the Occupy movement's start in New York. On Monday, Occupy supporters planned whatthey called a foreclosure dance outside the Wells Fargo bank on the 16th Street Mall in DenverSupporters were invited to join in from noon to the close of business. Protesters then planned tomarch to Civic Center Park for what they called an after-party event from 6 to 11 p.m. Despiteclashes with police last year, the Colorado State Patrol and Denver Police said they did not plan toadd an extra staff at the park Monday night. While the Occupy Denver movement has not been as visiblelately, members say they're still very busy. It's becoming more of an organized entity, said CorrineFowler. They're meeting weekly, they have teach-ins on many different social justice issues, theyhave a number of different committees, they're fundraising. Just because you don't see them poundingthe pavement demanding change, they're in there working on it, Fowler explained.","Questions": [{
"ID": 1,
"Question": "Where did the protest start?"
}, {
"ID": 2,
"Question": "Where did the protestors plan to march to?"
}]
}, {
"Topic Text": "The Occupy Denver movement began about 10 days after the New York protests began. ByOctober 2011, hundreds were attending marches and protests in Denver's Civic Center Park, 16th StreetMall and in between. A few days later, a make-shift camp appeared across from the state Capitol
[across from the state Capitol]. By October 12, the camp in Veteran's Park had grown to more than 80tents. After the governor ordered the park closed, protesters and officers clashed on October 14 whenofficers moved in to remove the tents. Two dozen people were arrested. The protests continuedthroughout the winter with a handful of members of Occupy Denver living on the sidewalk next to CivicCenter Park on Broadway between Colfax and 14th avenues. Then in March, the area had to be clearedout after one of the inhabitants told authorities he had scabies. In May, the city of Denver bannedunauthorized camping in the city.","Questions": [{
"ID": 1,
"Question": "How many people were arrested?"
}, {
"ID": 2,
"Question": "When was camping banned?"
}, {
"ID": 3,
"Question": "How many tents were there?"
}]
}][
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