import re from collections import Counter from nemo.collections import nlp as nemo_nlp new_config = nemo_nlp.models.TokenClassificationModel.from_pretrained(model_name="ner_en_bert", return_config=True) new_config.dataset.num_workers = 0 pretrained_ner_model = nemo_nlp.models.TokenClassificationModel.from_pretrained( model_name="ner_en_bert", override_config_path=new_config) def detect_ner(input_string): results = pretrained_ner_model.add_predictions([input_string.replace('[', '').replace(']', '')])[0] print(results) tags = re.findall('\[.*?]', results) output_string = "Found named entities: " + str(dict(Counter(tags)))[1:-1] return output_string