Re: [Morphix-devel] Morphix-NLP is ready

[Robert R. <ri...@li...>]

Zhang Le wrote:

>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! 
>  
>
I have the following suggestions:

- Modularise the non-morphix content (ie. all those NLP tools)
- If there are adaptations ot chinese language modularise them too

Idea would be to get a NLP-Module, that can be combined with others..

Robert