I'm trying to extract named entities from my text using NLTK. I find that NLTK NER is not very accurate for my purpose and I want to add some more tags of my own as well. I've been trying to find a way to train my own NER, but I don't seem to be able to find the right resources. I have a couple of questions regarding NLTK-
I would really appreciate help in this regard
Are you committed to using NLTK/Python? I ran into the same problems as you, and had much better results using Stanford's named-entity recognizer: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml. The process for training the classifier using your own data is very well-documented in the FAQ.
If you really need to use NLTK, I'd hit up the mailing list for some advice from other users: http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-users.
Hope this helps!