/* Copyright @ 1993 MIT and the University of Pennsylvania*/ Written by Eric Brill brill@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (After July 1 1994, my email address will be brill@blaze.cs.jhu.edu) Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, . . . =============================================================== THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND M.I.T. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. By way of example, but not limitation, M.I.T. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. =============================================================== You MUST read the copyright file included with the tagger (COPYRIGHT) before doing anything else. =============================================================== To compile the programs, type (in the tagger base directory): make or first edit the Makefile to suit your needs. ============================================================== Please read the other readme files and the copyright file. Please send questions, comments,suggestions and bug reports to brill@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (after July 1 1994, my email address will be brill@blaze.cs.jhu.edu). =============================================================== About the README files (all of which can be found in the Docs/ directory): If you don't care how it works, and just want to use it as-is, read: README.QUICK If you want to know more details about how it works, how to modify the code, how to add rules, how to do incorporate extra information, etc, read: README.LONG If you may want to train up another set of rules, read: README.TRAINING If you want to find out more about the n-best tagger, read: README.NBEST For a recent paper on the tagger, see: aaai94-tagger.ps ================================================================ IMPORTANT: If you have retrieved this program via anonymous ftp, please send me mail letting me know that you are using the tagger so I can keep you up to date on bug fixes, new versions, etc. =============================================================== For a detailed description of the tagger (beyond what is contained in the README files), see: \bibitem[Bri92] E.~Brill. \newblock A simple rule-based part of speech tagger. \newblock In {\em Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, ACL}, Trento, Italy, 1992. \bibitem[Bri93] E.~Brill. \newblock {\em A Corpus-Based Approach to Language Learning}. \newblock PhD thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. \bibitem[Bri94] E.~Brill. \newblock Some advances in rule-based part of speech tagging \newblock Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, Wa., 1994. (these papers are available from anonymous ftp to lightning.lcs.mit.edu in pub/BRILL/Papers. The last paper is included with this distribution, in the Docs/ directory. After July 1, 1994, contact me at brill@blaze.cs.jhu.edu for information about how to obtain these papers). =======================================================================