I'm using some modules to parse my mbox files, but found that certain messages caused a CPU spike and caused the process to hang. I narrowed the problem down to Lingua::EN::NamedEntity, which one of the modules uses internally. It was choking on a message with a large attachment, which, for the uninitiated, consists of many, many lines like

B/cCltBeBOMyzktNthjoXjIHOCsJvMkKk2u1Tcjlo6mAiwJmhwN6FT9iL...

(I'd been removing the attachments before passing them to Lingua::EN::NamedEntity, but that one was corrupted, so remained inline).

It strikes me that Lingua::EN::NamedEntity could be modified to better handle garbage input such as this, but I'm not sure of the best approach. Strings over are a certain length just aren't useful for entity extraction, IMO. Any suggestions so I can send the maintainer a patch?

In reply to Optimising Lingua::EN::NamedEntity for Very Strings by Anonymous Monk

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