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"# Recognizing people and places with Named Entity Recognition\n",
"\n",
"Sometimes instead of just words you're looking for _real-life things_ - people, places, companies, objects with _names_. This is called **named entity recognition** (NER), and is a useful technique of extraining information from text."
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"source": [
"<p class=\"reading-options\">\n <a class=\"btn\" href=\"/text-analysis/named-entity-recognition\">\n <i class=\"fa fa-sm fa-book\"></i>\n Read online\n </a>\n <a class=\"btn\" href=\"/text-analysis/notebooks/Named Entity Recognition.ipynb\">\n <i class=\"fa fa-sm fa-download\"></i>\n Download notebook\n </a>\n <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/github/littlecolumns/ds4j-notebooks/blob/master/text-analysis/notebooks/Named Entity Recognition.ipynb\" target=\"_new\">\n <i class=\"fa fa-sm fa-laptop\"></i>\n Interactive version\n </a>\n</p>"
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"source": [
"## Using NER with spaCy\n",
"\n",
"The natural language processing library spaCy has [great NER support](https://spacy.io/usage/linguistic-features#named-entities), allowing us to extract entities from any sort of text.\n",
"\n",
"Before you use spaCy in a notebook, you need to load in a language model. We're going to be using `en_core_web_sm`, because it's nice and small and fast to import."
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"import pandas as pd\n",
"import spacy\n",
"import requests\n",
"from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n",
"\n",
"nlp = spacy.load(\"en_core_web_sm\")\n",
"\n",
"pd.set_option(\"display.max_rows\", 200)"
]
},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Once we have our language model loaded, we can process a single sentence. Once you feed it to spaCy, all the magic happens behind the scenes - all that's left for us to do is loop through `doc.ents` and see the entities inside!"
]
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"Apple 0 5 ORG\n",
"U.K. 27 31 GPE\n",
"$1 billion 44 54 MONEY\n"
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"source": [
"doc = nlp(\"Apple is looking at buying U.K. startup for $1 billion\")\n",
"\n",
"for ent in doc.ents:\n",
" print(ent.text, ent.start_char, ent.end_char, ent.label_)"
]
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"We can also visualize the entities in the sentence using the wonderfully-named `displacy` inside of spaCy."
]
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" Apple\n",
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"from spacy import displacy\n",
"\n",
"displacy.render(doc, style=\"ent\")"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Here's what spaCy found:\n",
"\n",
"* `Apple` is an **organization**\n",
"* `U.K.` is a **geo-political entity**\n",
"* `$1 billion` is **money**\n",
"\n",
"If we wanted to be a little more computational about it, we can throw these results into a dataframe. Along with the `text` we're also adding the lemma of the text, just so capitalization and the like can be normalized."
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"entities = [(ent.text, ent.label_, ent.lemma_) for ent in doc.ents]\n",
"df = pd.DataFrame(entities, columns=['text', 'type', 'lemma'])\n",
"df"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## Processing longer texts\n",
"\n",
"Processing longer texts is the exact same thing as processing something shorter! Let's look at a [sample article from the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/ballistic-helmet-and-vest-provider-charged-with-passing-off-chinese-gear-as-american-made/2019/12/22/23e7799a-24df-11ea-b2ca-2e72667c1741_story.html)."
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"content = \"\"\"The owner of a Virginia company that provides the U.S. Navy with ballistic vests, protective helmets and riot gear is facing a federal wire fraud charge, accused of misleading authorities about where the products were made.\n",
"\n",
"Prosecutors said Arthur Morgan, the 67-year-old chief executive of Surveillance Equipment Group Inc. and its division SEG Armor, falsely claimed the equipment was made in Hong Kong and the United States when it in fact was made in mainland China.\n",
"\n",
"According to federal court records, Morgan\u2019s company was an authorized seller of law enforcement and security supplies to federal agencies. Such sales must comply with the Trade Agreements Act, which requires products to be made or \u201csubstantially transformed\u201d in a \u201cdesignated country.\u201d\n",
"\n",
"The United States includes Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, on its list of countries designated to make equipment under the act but excludes the mainland. If a contractor wants to supply products from non-designated countries, it must specifically disclose that information in an initial offer.\n",
"\n",
"\u201cA contractor\u2019s failure to do so disqualifies the contractor from eligibility for the contract,\u201d a federal affidavit said, \u201cand a contractor who falsely certifies cannot lawfully seek payment from the United States.\u201d\n",
"\n",
"Surveillance Equipment Group became an authorized equipment provider in 2003 and has fulfilled multiple federal orders over the past 16 years, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland said. In 2014, prosecutors said, the company\u2019s price list stated that concealable body armor and helmets were made in Hong Kong.\n",
"\n",
"When a General Services Administration contracting officer asked Morgan whether his items complied with the trade act, prosecutors said, Morgan emailed saying his products were made in the \u201cUnited States/Hong Kong.\u201d In 2017, he submitted a spreadsheet to the GSA stating that the ballistic helmets, anti-riot suits and shields originated in Louisa, Va.\n",
"\n",
"A federal prosecutor visited the Louisa address, on Mount Airy Road, which property records listed as a home. \u201cSpecifically, no manufacturing facility was observed at the address, which appeared, from the point of my observation, to be a field and/or forested area containing several vehicles,\u201d the affidavit said.\n",
"\n",
"An Army special agent then checked pictures Morgan\u2019s firm had filed with the GSA and detected that a photo of a helmet for sale had been altered, court records said. When the agent did a reverse image search, he found the unaltered photo on Alibaba.com, a Chinese e-commerce site, indicating the helmet was made by a Chinese firm. Another reverse image search found the same was true for a ballistic vest.\n",
"\n",
"Federal prosecutors researched shipping records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and found that Morgan\u2019s company received 14 shipments of vests or helmets between 2015 and 2017 from the same Chinese firm that made the equipment agents found in the unaltered photos.\n",
"\n",
"Investigators also found serial numbers on equipment that traced back to the Chinese company and Mandarin handwriting on ballistic material, prosecutors said. Emails Morgan had sent, however, indicated that orders were made in the United States and were being shipped from a factory in southern Virginia.\n",
"\n",
"Between 2015 and July of this year, prosecutors said, five federal agencies placed nine orders for ballistic vests, helmets or riot gear from Surveillance Equipment Group, totaling about $640,000.\n",
"\n",
"On Thursday, a magistrate at U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., ordered that Morgan be released to home confinement after he paid a $75,000 bond. An order of detention filed Friday showed he hadn\u2019t found a suitable custodian and hadn\u2019t posted bond.\n",
"\n",
"An email and phone message left for Morgan on Sunday were not returned, and no lawyer was listed in court records.\n",
"\n",
"If convicted, prosecutors said, Morgan could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. Actual sentences are typically less than that, they said.\n",
"\"\"\""
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 116,
"metadata": {},
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"source": [
"doc = nlp(content)"
]
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{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Amazing, look at all that! Let's throw it into a dataframe to see if we can figure out what this is about."
]
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 117,
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"entities = [(ent.text, ent.label_, ent.lemma_) for ent in doc.ents]\n",
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Let's see which **geopolitical entities** are the most common."
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 120,
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"df[df.type == 'GPE'].lemma.value_counts()"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## Trying one more time\n",
"\n",
"Processing longer texts is the exact same thing as processing something shorter! Below we'll look at [a piece by Reveal](https://www.revealnews.org/article/federal-judges-rulings-favored-companies-in-which-he-owned-stock/) involving judges making rulings on companies they own stock in.\n",
"\n",
"The story itself actually used named entity recognition! Here's part of a description of the process from Jonathan Stray's [What do journalists do with documents?](http://jonathanstray.com/papers/What%20do%20journalists%20do%20with%20documents.pdf):\n",
"\n",
"> Shifflet exhaustively transcribed California federal judges\u2019\n",
"\u201cstatement of economic interest\" disclosures to generate lists of\n",
"companies in which they owned stock. He then scraped the\n",
"PACER database for every case those judges presided over\n",
"(robust import) and used NER to generate a per-judge list of the\n",
"entities involved [42][personal communication]. By comparing\n",
"these lists the reporters were able to find cases in which judges\n",
"had ruled favorably for companies in which they owned stock.\n",
"\n",
"Which judges is it about? Let's try to use NER to find out!"
]
},
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 123,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"# Download and parse the article\n",
"url = \"https://www.revealnews.org/article/federal-judges-rulings-favored-companies-in-which-he-owned-stock/\"\n",
"response = requests.get(url)\n",
"bs_doc = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml')"
]
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 124,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"# Pull out the article content and look at \n",
"content = bs_doc.select_one(\"#content_body\").text\n",
"doc = nlp(content)"
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Now that we've processed it, it's just a matter of building our entities dataframe and **just looking at the people**."
]
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 125,
"metadata": {},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Clearly it's all about a handful of judges: Herndon, Patel, Schneider, and Dwyer, at least. **Because we shouldn't just blindly trust an algorithm,** let's use our eyes and brain and actually read the spaCy-annotated annotated article."
]
},
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 127,
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" counties.</br>\u201cIt is up to each judge to actually run these reports,\u201d said \n",
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", the process of obtaining these documents and cross-checking them against court rulings is cumbersome and expensive. Judges file \n",
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" attorney for \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #ff9561; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" of \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">GPE</span>\n",
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" and, in \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #bfe1d9; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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"</mark>\n",
" attorney.</br>\n",
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" of Real\u2019s more notable decisions was a \n",
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" order to use mandatory busing to desegregate \n",
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" schools.</br>Among judicial ethicists as well as attorneys who have argued cases before him, Real is known as an iconoclast.</br>On \n",
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", Real rarely looked up from his desk as a string of lawyers directed their arguments at the top of his head. Dwarfed by his burgundy leather chair, Real commanded the cavernous courtroom with the occasional gruff directive.</br>Then a mustachioed man in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs appeared. He was there to plead guilty to being caught in the country after being deported.</br>Real leaned forward and peppered the inmate with questions. Then, when a prosecutor from \n",
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" urged Real to make sure the man understood the facts of the crime before accepting his plea \u2013 as required by federal rules \u2013 Real lashed out.</br>\u201cI just went through all that with him,\u201d Real responded. \u201cWhat do you think that was all about? We went through the elements of the offense.\u201d</br>The attorney said nothing more.</br>Notable cases</br>Real is famous for a courtroom spat with \n",
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". \n",
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" Flynt\n",
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" had refused to reveal the source of a video of a sting operation that he had given to a television network. He appeared before Real and after repeated outbursts, Real ordered \n",
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" Flynt\n",
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" to review a complaint in which Real was accused of failing to provide the required reasons for his rulings. In \n",
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" of \n",
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" of \n",
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". He believes it is essential, he said, to retain the public\u2019s trust.</br>A nominee of President \n",
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" on the bench for \n",
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", \n",
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" does not rely on conflict-checking software alone. He posts a list of his stock holdings online, updating it \n",
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" said.</br>\n",
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" and a staff member cross-check his case assignments against his financial holdings daily, he said. In addition, he said, he has instructed his broker not to invest in large companies involved in frequent litigation.</br>From \n",
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" through \n",
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"</mark>\n",
", \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #e4e7d2; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" federal judges in \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">LOC</span>\n",
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" of \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" occasions, \n",
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" Herndon\n",
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" said.</br>In \n",
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" the Northern District\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">LOC</span>\n",
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" of \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">GPE</span>\n",
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", the clerk\u2019s office \u2013 rather than judges or their chamber staff \u2013 screens for conflicts before assigning cases. The \n",
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" Iowa\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">GPE</span>\n",
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" district also posts judges\u2019 stock holdings and other information on its website, including law firms or businesses affiliated with their family members.</br>\u201cIt helps lawyers sort out whether judges have conflicts,\u201d said \n",
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", the district\u2019s clerk of court. \u201cIn creating the list and publishing it, it also puts that consideration into the minds of judges.\u201d</br>In \n",
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", \n",
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" Dwyer\n",
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", the \n",
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" 9th\n",
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" Circuit court clerk, said privacy and security considerations keep \n",
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" said.</br>Geyh, the \n",
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" law professor, scoffed at those objections, pointing out that the financial disclosure is technically a public record, so the lack of online posting merely makes it harder to get.</br>\u201cIt is the price you pay for being a government employee,\u201d he said.</br>Obtaining financial filings</br>Without such Web access, obtaining judges\u2019 financial filings is complicated. A written request must be sent to federal officials in \n",
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" 19\n",
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" each, \n",
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" one\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">CARDINAL</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
" worth \n",
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" \u2013 to a recipient whose name has been blacked out. The companies ranged from \n",
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" to \n",
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" UnitedHealth Group\n",
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".</br>Another \n",
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" federal court judge, \n",
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" Percy Anderson\n",
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", issued \n",
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" more than two dozen\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">CARDINAL</span>\n",
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" rulings in a \n",
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" 2007\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">DATE</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
" trademark infringement case involving \n",
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" Verizon\n",
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"</mark>\n",
", including a preliminary injunction and some other rulings in favor of the company.\u00a0</br>\n",
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" Eight months\n",
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" California Watch\n",
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", a project of \n",
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", indicated that Real\u2019s rulings were, at a minimum, good news for the companies. \n",
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" California Watch\n",
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" Laurie Levenson\n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">ORG</span>\n",
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" in \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
" Los Angeles\n",
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", to review the cases.</br>A judge who repeatedly fails to withdraw from cases can face sanctions ranging from a private reprimand to suspension from hearing cases. Beyond that, a judge can be referred to \n",
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" for an impeachment hearing.</br>\u201cIf a judge is willfully disregarding the disqualification rules, there is precedent for saying he should be disciplined,\u201d said \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">ORG</span>\n",
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". \u201cIn addition, where judges are not diligent in keeping track of their financial conflicts, where there is a pattern of incompetence, they could also be sanctioned.\u201d</br>But Geyh acknowledged that such sanctions are rare, typically occurring only in extreme situations. \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">CARDINAL</span>\n",
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", impeached and removed from office by \n",
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" in \n",
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" for failing to disqualify himself from cases in which he accepted cash and favors from lawyers and a bail bonds company.</br>Potential ethics violations fall to \n",
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" Alex Kozinksi\n",
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" communications specialist \n",
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" Gary Horimoto\n",
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", \n",
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", \n",
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" Molly Dwyer\n",
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" Constitution\n",
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" the University of Southern California\n",
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" and, in \n",
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" attorney.</br>\n",
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" of Real\u2019s more notable decisions was a \n",
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" schools.</br>Among judicial ethicists as well as attorneys who have argued cases before him, Real is known as an iconoclast.</br>On \n",
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", Real rarely looked up from his desk as a string of lawyers directed their arguments at the top of his head. Dwarfed by his burgundy leather chair, Real commanded the cavernous courtroom with the occasional gruff directive.</br>Then a mustachioed man in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs appeared. He was there to plead guilty to being caught in the country after being deported.</br>Real leaned forward and peppered the inmate with questions. Then, when a prosecutor from \n",
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" urged Real to make sure the man understood the facts of the crime before accepting his plea \u2013 as required by federal rules \u2013 Real lashed out.</br>\u201cI just went through all that with him,\u201d Real responded. \u201cWhat do you think that was all about? We went through the elements of the offense.\u201d</br>The attorney said nothing more.</br>Notable cases</br>Real is famous for a courtroom spat with \n",
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" magazine publisher \n",
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". \n",
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" Flynt\n",
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" had refused to reveal the source of a video of a sting operation that he had given to a television network. He appeared before Real and after repeated outbursts, Real ordered \n",
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" Flynt\n",
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" gagged and handcuffed to his wheelchair.</br>\n",
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" account while the courts decided how to divide funds among various claimants, including \n",
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" in \n",
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" to review a complaint in which Real was accused of failing to provide the required reasons for his rulings. In \n",
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" of \n",
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" occasions, \n",
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" said.</br>In \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">LOC</span>\n",
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" of \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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", the clerk\u2019s office \u2013 rather than judges or their chamber staff \u2013 screens for conflicts before assigning cases. The \n",
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" district also posts judges\u2019 stock holdings and other information on its website, including law firms or businesses affiliated with their family members.</br>\u201cIt helps lawyers sort out whether judges have conflicts,\u201d said \n",
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"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
" California\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">GPE</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
", \n",
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" Dwyer\n",
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", the \n",
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" 9th\n",
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" Circuit court clerk, said privacy and security considerations keep \n",
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" Dwyer\n",
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" said.</br>Geyh, the \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #feca74; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
" Indiana\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">GPE</span>\n",
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" law professor, scoffed at those objections, pointing out that the financial disclosure is technically a public record, so the lack of online posting merely makes it harder to get.</br>\u201cIt is the price you pay for being a government employee,\u201d he said.</br>Obtaining financial filings</br>Without such Web access, obtaining judges\u2019 financial filings is complicated. A written request must be sent to federal officials in \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">GPE</span>\n",
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", and judges are warned about who is scrutinizing their disclosures. In some cases, under federal law, judges may black out key information, if it includes \u201crevealing personal and sensitive information (that) could endanger\u201d the judge or a family member.\u00a0</br>For example, in \n",
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" stocks \u00ad\u2013 most of which were worth \n",
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" each, \n",
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" one\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">CARDINAL</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
" worth \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #e4e7d2; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
" up to $500,000\n",
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" \u2013 to a recipient whose name has been blacked out. The companies ranged from \n",
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" Adobe Systems\n",
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" to \n",
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" UnitedHealth Group\n",
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".</br>Another \n",
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" Southern California\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">LOC</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
" federal court judge, \n",
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" Percy Anderson\n",
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", issued \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #e4e7d2; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
" more than two dozen\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">CARDINAL</span>\n",
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" rulings in a \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #bfe1d9; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">DATE</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
" trademark infringement case involving \n",
"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #7aecec; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
" Verizon\n",
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"</mark>\n",
", including a preliminary injunction and some other rulings in favor of the company.\u00a0</br>\n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">DATE</span>\n",
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" Anderson\n",
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"<mark class=\"entity\" style=\"background: #e4e7d2; padding: 0.45em 0.6em; margin: 0 0.25em; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em;\">\n",
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" of the parties,\u201d court records show.</br>\n",
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" Anderson\n",
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" Verizon\n",
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" Anderson\n",
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" California Watch\n",
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" analysis of \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">LOC</span>\n",
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" district judges, for instance, found that they issued \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">CARDINAL</span>\n",
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" California Watch\n",
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".</br>In \n",
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" one\n",
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", a subsidiary of \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">ORG</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
", beginning in \n",
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" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">DATE</span>\n",
"</mark>\n",
". \n",
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" Five months\n",
" <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; border-radius: 0.35em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.5rem\">DATE</span>\n",
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" into the case, \n",
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" Patel\n",
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"</mark>\n",
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"There's also a great point where `Verizon` is tagged as a person, and then as an organization in the very next sentence. It's trying its best, I guess!\n",
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"In this section we covered **named entity recognition** which can be used to extract \"real world\" objects from text. We used the spaCy library to find companies, people, countries, and more.\n",
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