[OPENNLP-478] NameSample should create typed span

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: tools-1.5.3
• Fix Version/s: tools-1.5.3
• Component/s: Name Finder
• Assignee: William Colen
• Reporter: William Colen
• Created: 17/Mar/12 19:48
• Updated: 07/May/12 12:46
• Resolved: 27/Mar/12 16:10

Description

NameFinder uses the type from span everywhere. When reading a corpus without type information we should set a default type value instead of leaving it null.
Leaving it null causes the evaluation listeners and the evaluation itself to fail comparing the predicted values and the expected. Predicted names will always have a type.