Example

Example

"""
Description: Named Entity Recognition API usage example.
Copyright: (C) 2016 EffectiveSoft Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Technical support: technical-support@effective-soft.com
"""

import json
import urllib
import urllib2

# possible named entities types 
ners = ["Unknown", "Person", "Organization", "Location", "Title", "Position", "Age", \
	"Date", "Duration", "Nationality", "Event", "Url", "MiscellaneousLocation"]

# sample text
sample_text = "Eyal Shaked was appointed General Manager of the Optical Networks Division in October 2005."

# set the URL for POST request and specify API key for authorization purposes (change YourAPIKey to the Intellexer API key)
api_url = "http://api.intellexer.com/recognizeNeText?apikey=YourAPIKey&loadNamedEntities=true&loadRelationsTree=true&loadSentences=true"

# print relations tree
def print_tree(node, height):
	for i in range(0, height):
		print "\t",
	print node.get('text')
	children = node.get('children')
	height += 1
	for child in children:
		print_tree(child, height)


# print information about detected named entities
def print_response(response):
	print "Detected Named Entities:"
	entities = response.get('entities')
	for entity in entities:
		print "\t", ners[entity.get('type')], ": ", entity.get('text')
	# print relations tree
	print "Relations tree:";
	print_tree(response.get('relationsTree'), 1)

# create request to the Named Entity Recognition API service
def request_api(url, text):
	header = { 'Content-Type' : "application/octet-stream" }
	req = urllib2.Request(url, text, header)
	conn = urllib2.urlopen(req)
	try:
		json_response = json.loads(conn.read())
	finally:
		conn.close()
	print_response(json_response)

# perform the request
try:
	request_api(api_url, sample_text)
except urllib2.HTTPError as error:
	print 'HTTP error - %s' % error.read()

Output

Detected Named Entities:
	Person :  Eyal Shaked
	Organization :  Optical Networks Division
	Position :  General Manager
	Date :  October 2005
Relations tree:
	root: Relations
		NE-person: Eyal Shaked
			VP: appointed (O-V)
				NE-pos: General Manager (POS)
					NE-org: Optical Networks Division (of)
				NE-date: October 2005 (DATE)