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# Download the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER)
$ curl -O http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-ner-2012-04-07.tgz
$ tar xvfz stanford-ner-2012-04-07.tgz

# Run NER as a service on port 8080:
$ java -mx1000m -cp stanford-ner-2012-04-07/stanford-ner.jar edu.stanford.nlp.ie.NERServer -loadClassifier stanford-ner-2012-04-07/classifiers/english.muc.7class.distsim.crf.ser.gz -port 8080 -outputFormat inlineXML &

# Install required gems
$ bundle install

# Try it
$ ruby get_named_entities.rb

# Optionally, pass in your own http address
$ ruby get_named_entities.rb http://example.com