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I am working on an information extractor specifically purposed with parsing relationships between entities such as movies, directors, and actors. NLTK appears to provide the necessary tools to construct such a system. However, it is not clear how one would go about adding custom labels (e.g. actor, director, movie title).

Similarly, Chapter 7 of the NLTK Book discusses information extraction using a named entity recognizer, but it glosses over labeling details.

So, I have two questions:

How would I add custom labels? If I have bare lists of relevant named entities (e.g. movies, actors, etc.), how can I include them as features? It appears that I would need to use IOB format, but I am unsure about how to do this when I only have lists of named entities.

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Once you have your own lists of named entities, and you're only interested in extracting the relations, I believe there are simpler solutions (although I never tried relation extraction in NLTK, so I might be wrong):

  • ReVerb - a tool written in Java. Once it produces the results, you can simply keep the rows, where your labels are present as objects of the relation.

  • OpenIE - the successor of ReVerb (also written in Java). The authors claim better perfomance, and the output might be more informative.

  • IEPY - a relation extraction tool in Python. You should be able to provide your own labels/named entities using gazetees.

  • MITIE - this library has bindings in Python, and it offers relation extraction functionality.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for the suggestions. I had hoped to use NLTK entirely, but these tools look promising as well. $\endgroup$
    – grill
    May 13, 2015 at 16:15
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Lots of keyword extraction techniques are there depends on factors like:

Grammatical quality of text. Length of text Are you looking for a single keyword or phrasal keyword etc. But in general If you have long text and you want to extract keywords automatically from that, I would recommend you to go through follow articles:

  1. TextRank

  2. Rake [Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction]

  3. Topica

Also to extract custom(special) keywords which is not coming through above techniques, have a look at this post.

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