The U-Compare Workbench is a graphical user interface that operates on top of the U-Compare platform. The U-Compare platform allows users to build and evaluate NLP workflows. Workflows consist of one or more components, consisting of corpus readers and tools, such as tokenisers, POS taggers, name...

TinySVM is an implementation of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) (Vapnik, 1995; Vapnik, 1998) for the problem of pattern recognition.

MBT is a memory-based tagger-generator and tagger in one. The tagger-generator part can generate a sequence tagger on the basis of a training set of tagged sequences; the tagger part can tag new sequences. MBT can, for instance, be used to generate part-of-speech taggers or chunkers for natural l...

The purpose of the U-Compare platform is to facilitate easy and rapid development and evaluation of NLP and text mining systems. It includes utilities (including a graphical user interface, the U-Compare workbench, see separate record in META-SHARE) to create workflows from individual, interopera...

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.