[OPENNLP-756] GeoEntityLinker Admin Boundary context generator should allow regex for more flexibility and better discovery of location context

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: addons-1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: addons-1.6.0
• Component/s: Entity Linker
• Environment: java 7
• Assignee: Mark Giaconia
• Reporter: Mark Giaconia
• Due: 02/Feb/15
• Created: 02/Feb/15 22:03
• Updated: 09/Jun/16 20:11

Description

Currently the way the AdminBoundaryContextGenerator discovers Country, Province, and County mentions is inflexible and misses a lot of mentions. The GeoEntityLinker should support regexes in the countrycontext file so that it will find more mentions based on user defined extensions via regex. This change propagates to several other classes called within the GeoEntityLinker