Named Entity Recognition 26.3
Named Entity Recognition User and Programming Guide

# addComponent

Adds a new component to the match. For example, if your Named Entity Recognition task returns an email address as a match, you can use `addComponent` to extract the text after the @ symbol and add it as a DOMAIN component for the match.

You can also use `addComponent` to add metadata from other sources. For example, if you have extracted a place name, you can add components called “LATITUDE” and “LONGITUDE”, and populate them with data from a different source, regardless of the fact that they were not components of the original text.

## Syntax

`edkmatch:addComponent(name, offset, offsetLength)`

or

`edkmatch:addComponent(name, offset, offsetLength, originalOffset, originalOffsetLength)`

## Arguments

Argument | Description
--- | ---
`name` | The name of the new component (for example, TOPIC, or SENTIMENT)
`offset` | The position of the text to use as the new component, in bytes from the start of the normalized text of the match.
`offsetLength` | The position of the text to use as the new component, in characters from the start of the normalized text of the match.
`originalOffset` | (optional) The position of the text to use as the new component, in bytes from the start of the original text of the match. If you do not set `originalOffset`, the value is set to the same as offset.
`originalOffsetLength` | (optional) The position of the text to use as the new component, in characters from the start of the original text of the match. If you do not set `originalOffsetLength`, the value is set to the same as offset.

NOTE: If you are unsure of the correct `offset` or `offsetLength`, or the component value comes from an external source, you can set `offset` or `offsetLength` to 0.

## Returns

The new empty component object.

Related Topics

- getName
- setName
- getText
- setText

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Named Entity Recognition 26.3

Topic Title: addComponent