Any suggestions so I can send the maintainer a patch?

Perhaps parameterisation, as in

      use Lingua::EN::NamedEntity;
      my @entities = extract_entities($some_text, $max_string_length);

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or filter the output (but not solve your problem) 
      my @entities = extract_entities($some_text, $max_entity_length);

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A reasonable default for either option might be 92 characters, which would accomodate a variant spelling of the name of a hill in my country of origin;

Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu (link goes to image).

 

In reply to Re: Optimising Lingua::EN::NamedEntity for Very Strings by EdwardG
in thread Optimising Lingua::EN::NamedEntity for Very Strings by Anonymous Monk

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