Named Entity extraction fails if given name of a person

[Sergei Sokolov]

 I am trying to check for the People support Dandelion API provides. I want to find information about F.B. Skinner and type his last name: https://dandelion.eu/semantic-text/entity-extraction-demo/?text=Skinner&lang=auto&min_confidence=0.6&exec=true#results If I run this I get an error:

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Something wrong happened, we're investigating.

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Please, take a look into that.

Thank you.

[Giacomo Berardi]

Hi Sergei,

unfortunately we have problems with some languages in beta. Setting the `lang` on auto one of these extra languages is probably wrongly selected.

I suggest you, especially for this very ambiguous short text, that is not related to a language (given it is a person name), to explicitly choose a language, e.g.:

https://dandelion.eu/semantic-text/entity-extraction-demo/?text=Skinner&lang=en&min_confidence=0.1&exec=true#results

Cheers 

Giacomo Berardi

Dandelion team