NERecogniser (Apache Tika 3.2.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

CoreNLPNERecogniser, GrobidNERecogniser, MITIENERecogniser, NLTKNERecogniser, OpenNLPNameFinder, OpenNLPNERecogniser, RegexNERecogniser
```
public interface NERecogniser
```
Defines a contract for named entity recogniser. The NER contract includes isAvailable(), getEntityTypes() and recognise(String)

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static String`	`DATE`
`static String`	`LOCATION`
`static String`	`MISCELLANEOUS`
`static String`	`MONEY`
`static String`	`ORGANIZATION`
`static String`	`PERCENT`
`static String`	`PERSON`
`static String`	`TIME`

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Set<String>`	`getEntityTypes()`	gets a set of entity types whose names are recognisable by this
`boolean`	`isAvailable()`	checks if this Named Entity recogniser is available for service
`Map<String,Set<String>>`	`recognise(String text)`	call for name recognition action from text

- Field Detail
  - LOCATION
```
static final String LOCATION
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - PERSON
```
static final String PERSON
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - ORGANIZATION
```
static final String ORGANIZATION
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - MISCELLANEOUS
```
static final String MISCELLANEOUS
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - TIME
```
static final String TIME
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - DATE
```
static final String DATE
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - PERCENT
```
static final String PERCENT
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - MONEY
```
static final String MONEY
```
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    Constant Field Values
- Method Detail
  - isAvailable
```
boolean isAvailable()
```
    checks if this Named Entity recogniser is available for service
    
    Returns:
    
    true if this recogniser is ready to recognise, false otherwise
  - getEntityTypes
```
Set<String> getEntityTypes()
```
    gets a set of entity types whose names are recognisable by this
    
    Returns:
    
    set of entity types/classes
  - recognise
```
Map<String,Set<String>> recognise(String text)
```
    call for name recognition action from text
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - text with possibly contains names
    
    Returns:
    
    map of entityType -> set of names