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Dear list members,<br>
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We are pleased to announce the release of FreeLing version 1.3,
which improves existing functionalities of the suite, and includes new
ones, such as WN-based semantic annotation, NE classification, and
dependency parsing. Also, we are glad to announce that this version
includes two new languages (Italian and Galician) thanks to the
researchers willing to share their data under open-source or
creative-commons licences (see "thanks" section in FreeLing web page).<br>
FreeLing is an open-source C++ library providing language analysis
services. It is Free Software, released under
Gnu LGPL. FreeLing 1.3 is being presented and demonstrated next May at
LREC-2006 in Genoa, Italy.<br>
<p>FreeLing is developed at <a target="_top"
href="http://www.talp.upc.es">TALP Research Center</a>, in <a
target="_top" href="http://www.upc.es">Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya</a>. Morphological dictionaries and grammars were
inityally developed by <a target="_top" href="http://clic.fil.ub.es">Centre
de Llenguatge i Computació</a>, in <a target="_top"
href="http://www.ub.es">Universitat de Barcelona</a>.
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Find more information, an online demo, and download links at
<a href="http://www.lsi.upc.es/%7Enlp" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp</a>
(under "resources" menu)<br>
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<p>--Extra information--</p>
<p> FreeLing is designed to be used as an external library from any
application requiring language analysis services. Nevertheless, a
simple
main program is also provided as a basic interface to the library,
which enables the user to analyze text files from the command line.</p>
<p>The named entity classification module requires some essential
Machine Learning services such as feature extraction, and
training/classification using Adaboost models. These services are
accessible to any program linking the library, so FreeLing can be also
used as a (very) basic ML-oriented NLP development toolkit.
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<p>Features already in previous versions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Text tokenization. </li>
<li>Sentence splitting. </li>
<li>Morphological analysis. </li>
<li>Named entity detection. </li>
<li>Date/number/currency/ratios recognition. </li>
<li>PoS tagging. </li>
<li>Chart-based shallow parsing. </li>
</ul>
<p>New features in version 1.3
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<ul>
<li>New languages: Italian and Galician </li>
<li>Improved and debugged linguistic data for Spanish and Catalan. </li>
<li>Contraction splitting </li>
<li>Improved suffix treatment, retokenization of clitic pronouns. </li>
<li>Physical magnitudes detection (speed, weight, temperature,
density, etc.) </li>
<li>Named entity classification. </li>
<li>WordNet based sense annotation </li>
<li>Dependency parsing. </li>
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