/illinois-cogcomp-nlp

CogComp's Natural Language Processing libraries

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CogcompNLP

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This project collects a number of core libraries for Natural Language Processing (NLP) developed by the University of Illinois' Cognitive Computation Group.

CogComp's main NLP libraries

Each library contains detailed readme and instructions on how to use it. In addition the javadoc of the whole project is available here.

Module Description
illinois-nlp-pipeline Provides an end-to-end NLP processing application that runs a variety of NLP tools on input text.
illinois-core-utilities Provides a set of NLP-friendly data structures and a number of NLP-related utilities that support writing NLP applications, running experiments, etc.
illinois-corpusreaders Provides classes to read documents from corpora into illinois-core-utilities data structures.
illinois-curator Supports use of Illinois' NLP Curator, a tool to run NLP applications as services.
illinois-edison A library for feature extraction from illinois-core-utilities data structures.
illinois-lemmatizer An application that uses WordNet and simple rules to find the root forms of words in plain text.
illinois-tokenizer An application that identifies sentence and word boundaries in plain text.
illinois-pos An application that identifies the part of speech (e.g. verb + tense, noun + number) of each word in plain text.
illinois-ner An application that identifies named entities in plain text according to two different sets of categories.
illinois-quantifier This tool detects mentions of quantities in the text, as well as normalizes it to a standard form.
illinois-inference A suite of unified wrappers to a set optimization libraries, as well as some basic approximate solvers.
illinois-depparse An application that identifies the dependency parse tree of a sentence.
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Using each library programmatically

To include one of the modules in your Maven project, add the following snippet with the #modulename# and #version entries replaced with the relevant module name and the version listed in this project's pom.xml file. Note that you also add to need the <repository> element for the CogComp maven repository in the <repositories> element.

    <dependencies>
         ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp</groupId>
            <artifactId>#modulename#</artifactId>
            <version>#version#</version>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>
    ...
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>CogcompSoftware</id>
            <name>CogcompSoftware</name>
            <url>http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/m2repo/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>