spaCy NER Service for Open Refine

Shamelessly adapted (stolen?) from this gist. Many thanks to b2m for doing all the hard work.

Usage

Spinning up the server with Docker

docker pull blackerby/ner_service
docker run -p 8000:8000 blackerby/ner_service

Jython expression to use in OpenRefine

import json, urllib, urllib2
url = 'http://localhost:8000/ner'
request_data = json.dumps({'text': value.encode('utf-8')})
request = urllib2.Request(url, request_data, {'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
response = urllib2.urlopen(request) data = json.load(response)
if data:
    return data[0]["label"]
else:
    return "No entity recognized"