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<p class="MsoNormal">We are pleased to announce the release of the Illinois Natural Language Processing suite of tools together with the Curator, an NLP pipeline management system, available from the Cognitive Computation Group website:
<a href="http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/software_view/Curator">http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/software_view/Curator</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The release includes our new Wikifier, new versions of our Named Entity Recognizer and Semantic Role Labeler, and a number of other Illinois NLP tools. It also includes Curator-wrapped versions of the Charniak, Stanford, and Berkeley parsers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Curator allows the user to configure and access a distributed set of NLP resources using a single interface and common data structures, while caching the results. The Curator runs as a service that connects to multiple natural language
processing (NLP) components: users' programs request annotations from the Curator, which then accesses the required components, caches their outputs, and returns them to the user. If a requested text has already been annotated with the requested resources,
Curator returns the cached version. Outputs of the various tools are represented in terms of character offsets over the original text input. The NLP tools are wrapped as Curator components, and can be run on different machines to spread the memory and processing
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<p class="MsoNormal">Demos of all our NLP tools are available at: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/demos">http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/demos</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More information about the Curator, including instructions for (free) download and an integrated demo, is available at:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/software_view/Curator">http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/software_view/Curator</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Curator package comes bundled with annotators capable of performing the following annotations:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Tokenization and Sentence Splitting (via Illinois NLP tools)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Part-of-speech tags (via Illinois POS Tagger)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Chunk (shallow parse) analysis (via Illinois Chunker)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Named Entities with standard and extended entity types (via Illinois Named Entity Recognizer) (NEW)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Coreference (via Illinois Coreference package)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Parse trees (via Stanford Parser, Charniak Parser, and Berkeley Parser)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Dependency trees (via Stanford Parser)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Semantic Role Labels for verbs and nouns (via Illinois SRL) (NEW)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Wikified Concepts and Entities (via Illinois Wikifier) (NEW)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A web demo of the Curator is available at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/curator/demo/">http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/curator/demo/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Curator was created by the Cognitive Computation Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
<a href="http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/">http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/</a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Curator and the Illinois NLP components are available free for academic use.<o:p></o:p></p>
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