"•" Dot spotted as entity

[x-fran]

File:
freme.txt

cUrl:

curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: text/plain' --header 'Accept: text/turtle' -d @freme.txt 'https://api.freme-project.eu/current/e-entity/freme-ner/documents?language=en&dataset=dbpedia&mode=all&nif-version=2.1' >> freme_out.txt

The problem

<http://freme-project.eu/#offset_1415_1416>
        a                     nif:OffsetBasedString , nif:Phrase ;
        nif:anchorOf          "•"^^xsd:string ;
        nif:annotationUnit    [ a                       nif:EntityOccurrence ;
                                nif:taMsClassRef        <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Country> ;
                                itsrdf:taAnnotatorsRef  <http://freme-project.eu/tools/freme-ner> ;
                                itsrdf:taClassRef       <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Country> , <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing> , <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Location> , <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/PopulatedPlace> , <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place> ;
                                itsrdf:taConfidence     "0.3195015578351836"^^xsd:double ;
                                itsrdf:taIdentRef       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States>
                              ] ;
        nif:beginIndex        "1415"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ;
        nif:endIndex          "1416"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ;
        nif:referenceContext  <http://freme-project.eu/#offset_0_1570> .

[m1ci]

this happens due to the unclean nature of the content. FREME NER expects "clean" content with text with regular sentences (to some extent).

Leaving the issue open for possible further developments.