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From: Chris Brew <chrisbr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: segmentation of text into sentences
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>>>>> In article <32F5F277.5681@harlequin.co.uk>, Jeremy Crowe <jeremyc@harlequin.co.uk> writes:
> SATZ is the Palmer/Hearst system, and any web search on SATZ should
> point you to the software.  It's pretty good too, but requires that
> the input text is (roughly) tagged with POS attributes; and many
> taggers require that the input text is already tokenised into
> sentences...
The Lycos search which I tried produced reams
of German income tax legislation. The software may have been
there, but it wasn't easy to find that way. (Satz is the German
word for sentence (guess that's why they chose the name)

But 

SATZ NEAR Segmentation 

on Alta Vista gets (inter alia)

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/src/satz

which was right. The link to the software on that page does _not_
work for me. I have written to David Palmer about this, and will
inform this group if he replies

C

PS. Is there any difference between the names which
IR-literate people give to their systems and those
given by non-IR people. How does this affect Web search?
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