lexnlp.extract.en.entities.nltk_re: Extracting companies

The lexnlp.extract.en.entities.nltk_re module contains methods that allow for the extraction of company names from text. Example statements that are covered by default in this module include:

  • Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

  • ACME, INC.

  • Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association

  • Lexpredict LLC

The full list of current unit test cases can be found here: https://github.com/LexPredict/lexpredict-lexnlp/blob/master/lexnlp/extract/en/entities/tests/test_get_companies.py

Extracting conditions

Example

>>> import lexnlp.extract.en.entities.nltk_re

>>> text = "This is Deutsche Bank Securities Inc."
>>> print(list(lexnlp.extract.en.entities.nltk_re.get_entities.nltk_re.get_companies(text)))
[('This is Deutsche Bank Securities', 'Inc', 'Bank')]

>>> text = "This is Lexpredict LLC"
>>> print(list(lexnlp.extract.en.entities.nltk_re.get_entities.nltk_re(text)))
[('This is Lexpredict', 'LLC', None)]