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		pierrefar on Aug 1, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Natural language parsing for the web It doesn't seem to be handling multi-word proper nouns as I thought it would: "Pride and Prejudice is a good book." becomes "Pride/NNP and/CC Prejudice/NNP is/VBZ a/DT good/JJ book/NN ./." I would have thought "Pride and Prejudice" would be lumped together.

raffi on Aug 1, 2010 | [–]

It's a little confusing but this looks like a front-end to Stanford's Part-of-Speech tagger. POS taggers do not group multi-word tokens. This would be the role of a chunker or a parser.

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