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Comment by stephenr | Hacker News Reader

Does the same thing work if the name is lowercase?

Stanford nlp won't recognise "I want to go to sydney" with a location because it expects proper nouns to be capitalised for places (and other similar named entities I believe). I tried to make their case less models work but a lack of time and patience resulted in a more specific fix for what we needed.

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  > nlp.text('i want to go to sydney.').places()[0].city
  'Sydney'

  > nlp.text('tony hawk did a kickflip.').people()[0].text
  'tony'

So in the first case, it clearly does recognise that Sydney is a city independent of capitalisation. In the second case, it does recognise the first name but not the last, instead tagging "hawk" as a noun. The same happens with "john smith", however "john thomas" is recognised as a full name.

To be fair, I think that my grandmother, not familiar with gaming/skating celebs, would tag it the same way.

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