StanfordNERTagger on linux

stanford.py

from nltk.tag import StanfordNERTagger
import os 

print os.environ.get('STANFORD_MODELS')

# Output:
#/home/jackspicer/StanfordParser/stanford-ner-2015-12-09/classifiers/english.all.3class.distsim.crf.ser.gz:/home/jackspicer/stanford-postagger-2015-12-09/models/english.conll.4class.distsim.crf.ser.gz:/home/jackspicer/StanfordParser/stanford-ner-2015-12-09/english.muc.7class.distsim.crf.ser.gz

# I want to select the first classifier model

stanford_classifier = os.environ.get('STANFORD_MODELS').split(':')[0]

# For getting the path for StanfordNERTagger 
stanford_ner_path = os.environ.get('CLASSPATH').split(':')[0]

st = StanfordNERTagger(stanford_classifier, stanford_ner_path, encoding='utf-8')

print st.tag("Manash is awesome!".split())

# Output
# [(u'Manash', u'O'), (u'is', u'O'), (u'awesome!', u'O')]