quickstart

This guide provides the fastest way to start using lingscope. You can also read the detailed instructions.

For the quickstart, we'll assume that your working directory is $LSWD.

Download lingscope.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingscope to $LSWD. Extract lingscope.zip. A new directory 'lingscope' will appear under $LSWD.

Change the classpath of the system to include lingscope.jar by issuing the following command on your terminal -

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$LSWD/lingscope/dist/lingscope.jar

Download negation_models.zip from https://sourceforge.net/projects/lingscope/files_beta/ to $LSWD. If you want to detect hedge scopes instead of negation scopes, download hedge_models.zip instead, and follow the steps by replacing negation_model by hedge_model. Extract negation_models.zip. A new directory 'negation_models' will appear under $LSWD.

You can now test lingscope from terminal by issuing the following command -

java lingscope.drivers.SentenceTagger scope crf $LSWD/negation_models/crf_scope_words_all_both.model "This is not a good example."

You can replace the example sentence with any sentence.