A chunker model is included with this project.

The model derives from a combination of GENIA, Penn Treebank (Wall Street Journal) and anonymized
clinical data per Safe Harbor HIPAA guidelines. Prior to model building, the clinical data was 
deidentified for patient names to preserve patient confidentiality. Any person name in the model 
will originate from non-patient data sources.

To build a model of your own, you need to
1) obtain training data - see data/chunk/genia/README and data/chunk/ptb/README
2) build a model using the training data. 

After you have obtained training data, you can build a chunker model by running the following:

java opennlp.tools.chunker.ChunkerME <training-data> <model-name> <iterations> <cutoff>
where <training-data> is an OpenNLP training data file as described in e.g. data/chunk/genia/README
      <model-name> The file name of the resulting model.  The name should end with either '.txt' 
                  (for a plain text model) or '.bin.gz' (for a compressed binary model).  
      <iterations> How many training iterations will be performed.  The default is 100.  
      <cutoff>     The minimum number of times a feature has to be seen to be considered for 
	               inclusion in the model.  The default cutoff is 5.
	  
The arguments <iterations> and <cutoff> are, taken together, optional - i.e. you should provide 
both or provide neither.