[Morphix-devel] Morphix-NLP is ready

[Zhang Le <ej...@16...>]

Hello all,
  Several days ago I posted a mail for hosting help. Now with the new mirror server ready, I'm pleased to announce the first public release of Morphix-NLP :-)

What is Morphix-NLP? 
==================== 
  Though the field of 
   NLP has undergone decades of intensive research, software designed in 
   the NLP community are often scattered around the net and are not 
   known by the larger computer user community. Consequently, most NLP 
   software can not be found in mainstream distributions even years 
   after the first public release. 


   The purpose of this CD is twofold: 
     * In the first place, it tries to break the software acquisition and 
       installation barrier facing many researchers and students in the 
       NLP community by providing most NLP related software on a single 
       Live CD. 
     * In the second place, the CD can be used to promote Natural 
       Language Processing among average computer users. Simply plugging 
       the CD into cd-drive and watching some NLP applications in action, 
       most users will get some knowledge of Natural Language Processing 
       and what NLP can do. 

What is included on this CD? 
============================ 
A broad range of NLP software are included for performing common NLP tasks 
including: 


Tokenizers: 
    Qtoken, MXTERMINATOR, Chinese word segmenters... 


POS Taggers: 
    Brill's TBL Tagger, MXPOST, fnTBL tagger, QTag, Tree-Tagger, 
    Memory-based Tagger... 


Parsers: 
    Collins' Parser, Link Parser, LoPar... 


Language Modeling Tools: 
    CMU SLM toolkit, Trigger Toolkit, Ngram Statistics Package... 


Speech Software: 
    Festival Speech Synthesis System 


Develpment Tools: 
    SVM-light, Maxent, SNoW, TiMBL, fnTBL 


Other software: 
    WordNet Browser 2.0, Word Concordance program (antconc), unaccent, 
    and many other software... 


All software are well tested and documented. More software will be 
included in next release. 


The compressed ISO image is only 448MB (with kernel 2.4, XFACE, gimp1.3, 
gcc3.2, XFree86-4...), leaving plenty room for future extension. One can 
easily add extra personal data (demo software, corpus...) on the CD 
before burning it. 


Where to get it? 
================ 
Current location of the CD is (will move to berlios.de soon): 
http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/ 


Online Manual: 
http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/manual/ 


ISO Image: 
http://210.83.30.84/morphix-nlp/morphix-nlp-1.1.iso
md5:3f0ae2e59e8cd724ace247eb07661d0f


Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome :-) 


Have fun! 



-- 
                                     Sincerely yours,
                                            Zhang Le