[okfn-labs] Find country names in blobs of unknown text

Fri Jun 13 15:56:58 UTC 2014

Hi Thomas,

You might have a look at DBpedia spotlight:
http://spotlight.dbpedia.org

This looks like a "named entity recognition" (NER) problem.

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 2014-06-13 17:54, Thomas Levine wrote:
> I'm looking for a function or regular expression that finds country names in blobs of text.
> This can just be something that does a bunch of exact string matches so that it doesn't matter
> whether the source blob (company names in my case) is spelled "Aecom New Zealand Limited",
> "Aecom (New Zealand)", "Aecom, New Zealand", or "New Zealand". Has someone released something
> like this?
>
> If I don't see an answer soon, I'm going to write a regular expression that matches with a
> bunch of country names from some country name dataset.
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