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Task type: NER

NER: Named Entity Recognition. The task of named entity recognition in text. For example, in the text “What is the weather in London”, the entity “London” can be detected.

System name: ner

List of services.

Services of the ner type accept text as input and return JSON in a specific format.

Data types​

Predict request​

  • Specification
  • Python type: mlp_sdk.types.Text (the mlp-python-sdk module)
  • Java type: com.mlp.api.datatypes.nlp.Text (the mlp-datatypes module)

Request example:

{
  "text": "What is the weather in London"
}

Predict response​

  • Specification
  • Python type: mlp_sdk.types.NamedEntities (the mlp-python-sdk module)
  • Java type: com.mlp.api.datatypes.nlp.NamedEntities (the mlp-datatypes module)

Response example:

{
  "entities": [
    {
      "value": "london",
      "entity_type": "TOPONYM",
      "span": {
        "start_index": 15,
        "end_index": 21
      },
      "entity": "london",
      "source_type": "DEEPPAVLOV"
    }
  ]
}