2018-03-04: Installing Stanford CoreNLP in a Docker Container
Fig. 1: Example of Text Labeled with the CoreNLP Part-of-Speech , Named-Entity Recognizer and Dependency Annotators . Click to expand image. The Stanford CoreNLP suite provides a wide range of important natural language processing applications such as Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging and Named-Entity Recognition (NER) Tagging. CoreNLP is written in Java and there is support for other languages . I tested a couple of the latest Python wrappers that provide access to CoreNLP but was unable to get them working due to different environment-related complications. Fortunately, with the help of Sawood Alam , our very able Docker campus ambassador at Old Dominion University, I was able to create a Dockerfile that installs and runs the CoreNLP server ( version 3.8.0 ) in a container. This eliminated the headaches of installing the server and also provided a simple method of accessing CoreNLP services through HTTP requests. How to run the CoreNLP server on localhost...