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Looks up sequences of tokens in a dictionary and then tags the sequence with one or more semantic tags as an alternative representation(s). Typically these tags represent entities such as {person}, {place}, {company}, etc.

Note that all possibilities are tagged, including overlaps and sub-patterns, with the expectation that later disambiguation stages will choose which tags are the correct interpretation.

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• dictionary (string, required) - The dictionary resource which holds the names and to be located in the text.
  • This is specified as "provider:name" in the standard resource format (INSERT LINK HERE).
• required (string, optional) - Only process the tokens with the specified flags.
  
  • A JSON array of strings, such as ["TOKEN", "ALL_LOWER_CASE"]

{
 "type":"DictionaryTagger",
 "dictionary":"dict-provider:people-lowercase",
 "required":["TOKEN", "ALL_LOWER_CASE"]
}

Note that the "people-lowercase" resource must be in the format as specified below.

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• SEMANTIC_TAG - Identifies all lexical items which are semantic tags.

Resource Data

The dictionary tagger must have an "entity dictionary format is under change... will be documented when complete.

Synonym-Based Dictionary Format

Dictionary Index Format

Entity Based Dictionary Format

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" (a string to JSON map) which is a list of JSON records, indexed by entity ID. In addition, there may also be a pattern map and a token index.

Entity Dictionary Format

The only file which is absolutely required is the entity dictionary. It is a series of JSON records, typically indexed by entity ID.

Each JSON record represents an entity. The format is as follows:

{
  "id":"Q28260",
  "tags":["{city}", "{administrative-area}", "{geography}"],
  "patterns":[
    "Lincoln", "Lincoln, Nebraska", "Lincoln, NE"
  ],
  "confidence":0.95
  
  . . . additional fields as needed go here . . . 
}

Fields

• id (required, string) - Identifies the entity by unique ID. This identifier must be unique across all entities (across all dictionaries) regardless of the type.
  • Typically this is an identifier with meaning to the larger application which is using the Language Processing Toolkit.
• tags (required, array of string) - 
• patterns (required, array of string) - 
• confidence (optional, float) - 

Other, Optional Fields

• display (optional, string) - 
• context (optional, object) - 

Pattern Map

Token Index