<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div> *******************************************************************</div><div> BBN Named Entity annotation of the 15 million word Open ANC</div><div> *******************************************************************</div><div> <a href="http://www.anc.org">http://www.anc.org</a></div><div><br></div>The American National Corpus (ANC) project has received a contribution of named entity annotation <div>for the entire 15 million words of the Open American National Corpus, which is now freely </div><div>available for download from the ANC website. The annotations were automatically produced </div><div>by the BBN named entity tagger (see <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/acl/W/W03/W03-1506.pdf">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/acl/W/W03/W03-1506.pdf</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 11px; ">) </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 11px; "></span>and contributed by Sameer Pradhan. The download contains the OANC texts, respecting the </div><div>OANC directory structure, with inline annotations in an XML-like format. <br><div><br></div><div>The ANC project is in the process of generating a version of these annotations in standoff GrAF </div><div>format so that they may be combined with other OANC annotations using the ANC2Go web </div><div>application <a href="http://www.anc.org:8080/ANC2Go">http://www.anc.org:8080/ANC2Go</a>) or the stand-alone ANCTool. </div><div><br></div><div>The ANC welcomes contributions of both annotations and texts, which we release for</div><div>free download by the community from our website. ANC, OANC, and MASC data and annotations are </div><div>or will be also distributed through the Linguistic Data Consortium. To contribute, send email to</div><div><a href="mailto:anc@anc.org">anc@anc.org</a> or consult <a href="http://www.anc.org/contribute.html">http://www.anc.org/contribute.html</a>.</div></div><div><br></div><div>==============================================================================</div><div>THE ANC PROJECT IS COMMITTED TO OPEN DATA FOR LANGUAGE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, </div><div>AND EDUCATION. ALL CONTRIBUTIONS OF BOTH DATA AND ANNOTATIONS SHOULD BE </div><div>UNENCUMBERED BY LICENSING RESTRICTIONS. ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE</div><div>FOR USE BY THE COMMUNITY.</div><div>=============================================================================== </div></body></html>