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From: firby@cs.uchicago.edu (R. James Firby)
Subject: Re: looking for part of speech tagger and graphics library
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In article <f3tohqj4vgr.fsf@galloway.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
chrisbr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Chris Brew) wrote:

> The best available Lisp technology for this is Xerox's part-of-speech
> tagger, available from ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/tagger (as I write
> I am failing to connect to this URL, but that is normal across the
> Atlantic. The package includes a lexicon, a statistical model
> trained on half the Brown corpus, facilities for tokenization
> and the guessing of lexical entries for unknown words, and (not 
> least) a portable defsystem utility which makes getting it started
> fairly easy. The current version is 1.2, and I know for a fact that
> an earlier version (1.1) ran well with MCL 2.0.1. It shouldn't
> be too hard to get 1.2 running with MCL 3 (Has anybody already 
> done this?)

Thanks for the info.  I just downloaded this and tried to load it into
MCL 3.0p2.  I couldn't get it to load.  Has anyone else had luck?

The problem seems to be that it pushes the type declaration stuff in
Common Lisp very hard and MCL doesn't get it right.

I suggest the Digitool use this tagger as a test for their type declaration
code.

Jim

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Jim Firby
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