some helpful instructions

Author: J38

examples/sample-maven-project/README.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+This is an example Maven project with Stanford CoreNLP as a dependency.
+
+Make sure to set the RAM with this command:
+
+export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx14000m"
+
+You can build the project with this command:
+
+mvn compile
+
+You can run example demos with a command like this:
+
+mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="edu.stanford.nlp.StanfordCoreNLPEnglishTestApp" 

src/edu/stanford/nlp/pipeline/DeterministicCorefAnnotator.java

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ else if (granularity.equals("coarse"))
       sourceNERTagClass = CoreAnnotations.NamedEntityTagAnnotation.class;
     // switch tags
     for (CoreLabel token : tokens) {
-      if (!"".equals(token.get(sourceNERTagClass)) && token.get(sourceNERTagClass) != null)
+      if (!token.get(sourceNERTagClass).equals("") && token.get(sourceNERTagClass) != null)
         token.set(CoreAnnotations.NamedEntityTagAnnotation.class, token.get(sourceNERTagClass));
     }
   }