NLeSC/xtas — pull request #51 by nusselder (2014-04-30 17:07:26+00:00)
Title: proposed fix for UnicodeEncodeError: explicit utf-8 encode during stanfo...

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When data in elasticsearch contained a unicode character, a UnicodeEncodeError
was thrown. nltk tokenised text is now explicitly encoded as utf-8 before
sending the text to stanford ner.