--- a/servicealerts/servicealerts_twitter/NameFinder.java
+++ b/servicealerts/servicealerts_twitter/NameFinder.java
@@ -1,1 +1,56 @@
+InputStream modelIn = new FileInputStream("en-ner-person.bin");
 
+try {
+  TokenNameFinder model = new TokenNameFinderModel(modelIn);
+}
+catch (IOException e) {
+  e.printStackTrace();
+}
+finally {
+  if (modelIn != null) {
+    try {
+      modelIn.close();
+    }
+    catch (IOException e) {
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+NameFinderME nameFinder = new NameFinderME(model);
+
+for (String document[][] : documents) {
+
+  for (String[] sentence : document) {
+    Span nameSpans[] = find(sentence);
+    // do something with the names
+  }
+
+  nameFinder.clearAdaptiveData()
+}
+
+
+                InputStream in = getClass()
+                        .getClassLoader()
+                        .getResourceAsStream(
+                                "opennlp/tools/namefind/AnnotatedSentences.txt");
+
+                String encoding = "ISO-8859-1";
+
+                ObjectStream<NameSample> sampleStream = new NameSampleDataStream(
+                        new PlainTextByLineStream(new InputStreamReader(in,
+                                encoding)));
+
+                TokenNameFinderModel nameFinderModel = NameFinderME.train("en",
+                        "default", sampleStream, Collections
+                                .<String, Object> emptyMap(), 70, 1);
+
+                TokenNameFinder nameFinder = new NameFinderME(nameFinderModel);
+
+                // now test if it can detect the sample sentences
+
+                String sentence[] = { "Alisa", "appreciated", "the", "hint",
+                        "and", "enjoyed", "a", "delicious", "traditional",
+                        "meal." };
+
+                Span names[] = nameFinder.find(sentence);
+