Update helper.py

helper.py

@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ def identify_locations(sentence):
     locations = []  
 
     try:
+      
+      # this is because there were cases were a city followed by comma was not understood by the system
+      sentence = sentence.replace(",", " $ ")
 
       # ner
       locations.append(identify_loc_ner(sentence))
@@ -295,8 +298,8 @@ def identify_locations(sentence):
           if loc_type not in locations_dict:
               locations_dict[loc_type] = []
           locations_dict[loc_type].append(location)
-      
-      
+
+
       # conditions for multiple references
       # it is mandatory that a country will exist
       if 'country' in locations_dict: