Getting Stanford NER up and running on DHBox

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#! /bin/sh

# This is a barebones and super brittle script by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
# (@muziejus on GitHub) for installing part of the Stanford NLP library to a
# DHBox (http://dhbox.org)

# First, we need to upgrade Java
# from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30177455/moving-from-jdk-1-7-to-jdk-1-8-on-ubuntu
# Newer versions of java *are* available

echo "#### Installing Java 1.8 in /opt/jdk . . ."
wget --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u71-b15/jdk-8u71-linux-x64.tar.gz
mkdir /opt/jdk
tar -zxf jdk-8u71-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/jdk/
rm jdk-8u71-linux-x64.tar.gz
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_71/bin/java 1
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_71/bin/javac 1
echo "#### Below, choose the java 1.8 installation in /opt/jdk (typing '1' should do it)"
update-alternatives --config java
update-alternatives --config javac
echo "#### The lines below should mention Java 1.8."
java -version
javac -version

# Next, we download the appropriate Stanford NLP software. I'm interested in
# the Named Entity Recognition tagger.

# Note that this also downloads not necessarily the newest version of the
# software.

echo "#### Now installing the Stanford NER tagger"
wget www-nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-ner-2015-12-09.zip
unzip stanford*
rm *.zip
mv stanford* stanford-ner
echo "#### The stanford files are now available in: "`pwd`"/stanford-ner"

echo "####"
echo "#### Now installing nltk for Python 3. Ignore the errors."

pip3 install nltk

echo "####"
echo "#### Now installing the 'punkt' tokenizer for nltk."

python3 -c "import nltk; nltk.download('punkt')"