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 ABOUT FiNER
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FiNER is a tool for Named Entity Recognition in Finnish running text, developed at the University of Helsinki for the FIN-CLARIN consortium. This distibution site <http://www.helsinki.fi/~jkuokkal/finer_dist/> contains development snapshots, which may work incompletely and possibly not work at all in some situations. Developer of the 2013 versions: juha.kuokkala AD helsinki.fi, contact for futher development: krister.linden AD helsinki.fi.

The executables offered here have been compiled for 64-bit x86 Linux.

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 FiNER TAGGING
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By default, FiNER separates word-form tokens at white space and outputs them one per line with additional TAB-separated data fields:
1) original word-form
2) lemma (base-form)
3) OMorFi morphological tags
4) OMorFi proper-name tags
5) FiNER entity tags

FiNER entity tags take the following general forms: 
a) <TAG/>  single-word entity
b) <TAG>   first word of a multi-word entity
c) </TAG>  last word of a multi-word entity

Following TAGs are used in the current implementation. Note that the sub-division of Org(anizations) and especially Loc(ations) is currently only roughly instructive, and in most practical applications, combining these to more general Org and Loc classes might be reasonable.

EnamexLocGpl - Geographical areas and places
EnamexLocPpl - Political and settlement areas
EnamexLocStr - Street locations
EnamexLocXxx - Locations without further specification

EnamexOrgCrp - Corporations, associations etc.
EnamexOrgAth - Athletic/sports organizations
EnamexOrgClt - Cultural organizations
EnamexOrgEdu - Educational organizations
EnamexOrgPlt - Political parties
EnamexOrgTvr - Media organizations (TV, radio, press)

EnamexPrsHum - Human persons
EnamexPrsTit - A title possibly preceding a personal name

TimexTmeDat - Time expressions
NumexMsrCur - Currency amounts
NumexMsrXxx - Other measurement expressions

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 USAGE EXAMPLE
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$ cat > ex1.txt
Raisio Yhtymän pääjohtajan Matti Salmisen mukaan yhtiö on periaatteessa kiinnostunut Suomen Rehusta .

$ ./finer_dist/finer_tag < ex1.txt
Raisio	Raisio	[POS=NOUN][SUBCAT=PROPER][NUM=SG][CASE=NOM]	[PROP=GEO][PROP=ORG]	<EnamexOrgCrp>
Yhtymän	Yhtymä	[POS=NOUN][SUBCAT=PROPER][NUM=SG][CASE=GEN]	[PROP=GEO]	</EnamexOrgCrp>
pääjohtajan	pääjohtaja	[POS=NOUN][NUM=SG][CASE=GEN]		<EnamexPrsTit/>
Matti	Matti	[POS=NOUN][SUBCAT=PROPER][NUM=SG][CASE=NOM]	[PROP=FIRST][PROP=GEO][PROP=LAST]	<EnamexPrsHum>
Salmisen	Salminen	[POS=NOUN][SUBCAT=PROPER][NUM=SG][CASE=GEN]	[PROP=GEO][PROP=LAST]	</EnamexPrsHum>
mukaan	mukaan	[POS=ADPOSITION]	-
yhtiö	yhtiö	[POS=NOUN][NUM=SG][CASE=NOM]	-
on	olla	[POS=VERB][VOICE=ACT][MOOD=INDV][TENSE=PRESENT][PERS=SG3]	-
periaatteessa	periaate	[POS=NOUN][NUM=SG][CASE=INE]	-
kiinnostunut	kiinnostua	[POS=VERB][VOICE=ACT][PCP=NUT][CMP=POS][NUM=SG][CASE=NOM]	-
Suomen	Suomi	[POS=NOUN][SUBCAT=PROPER][NUM=SG][CASE=GEN]	[PROP=GEO][PROP=LAST]	<EnamexOrgCrp>
Rehusta	Rehu	[POS=NOUN][SUBCAT=PROPER][NUM=SG][CASE=ELA]	[PROP=GEO][PROP=LAST]	</EnamexOrgCrp>
.	.	[SUBCAT=PUNCTUATION]	-