YamCha is a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker oriented toward a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition, base NP chunking, and Text Chunking. We used it for NP chunking.

Uplug (see Tiedemann, 2003a) is a collection of tools and scripts for processing text-corpora, for automatic alignment and for term extraction from parallel corpora. Several tools have been integrated in Uplug. Pre-processing tools include a sentence splitter, a general tokenizer and wrappers a...

Part-of-speech tagger tuned to biomedical text. The tool is provided as a UIMA component, which forms part of the in-built library of components provided with the U-Compare platform (see separate META-SHARE record) for building and evaluating text mining workflows. The U-Compare Workbench (se...

Syntactic parser for English. Outputs dependency relations. Also outputs parts-of-speech for each token. The tool is provided as a UIMA component, specifically as Java archive (jar) file, which can be incorporated within any UIMA workflow. However, it is particularly designed use in the U-Com...

This is a UIMA wrapper for the OpenNLP Tokenizer tool. It splits English sentences into individual tokens. The tool forms part of the in-built library of components provided with the U-Compare platform (see separate META-SHARE record) for building and evaluating text mining workflows. The U-Comp...

This is a UIMA wrapper for the OpenNLP Sentence Detector tool. It splits English text into individual sentences. The tool forms part of the in-built library of components provided with the U-Compare platform (see separate META-SHARE record) for building and evaluating text mining workflows. ...

This is a UIMA wrapper for the OpenNLP Tokenizer tool. It assigns part-of-speech tags to tokens in English text. The tagset used in from the Penn Treebank). The tool forms part of the in-built library of components provided with the U-Compare platform (Kano et al., 2009; Kano et al., 2011; see se...

The purpose of the tool is to identify gene and protein names in biomedical text. The tool is provided as a UIMA component, which forms part of the in-built library of components provided with the U-Compare platform for building and evaluating text mining workflows. The U-Compare Workbench pr...

Tokenisation is one of the functionalities of the GENIA tagger, which additionally outputs the base forms, part-of-speech tags, chunk tags, and named entity tags. The tagger is specifically tuned for biomedical text such as MEDLINE abstracts. The tool is a UIMA component, which forms part of th...