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=== Apologies for cross-postings ==<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
We are glad to inform you of the release of FreeLing stable
version 3.0.<br>
You can download it (either source or binaries for Linux and
Windows) from the download section of the project webpage at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling">http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling</a> <br>
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FreeLing is a library providing language analysis services (such
as morfological analysis, date recognition, PoS tagging, etc.).
Version 3.0 provides language identification, tokenizing, sentence
splitting, morphological analysis, text-to-phonetics transcription,
NE detection and classification, recognition of
dates/numbers/physical magnitudes/currency/ratios, PoS tagging,
shallow parsing, dependency parsing, WN-based sense annotation, and
word sense disambiguation. <br>
FreeLing is designed to be used as an external library from any
application requiring this kind of services. In addition to native
C++, APIs are provided for Java, Perl, and Python. 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. <br>
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Main new features in version 3.0 are:<br>
<ul>
<li>Full UTF-8 support.</li>
<li>New languages: Russian and ancient Spanish (XII-XVI).</li>
<li>Reorganized ML components. Inclusion of SVM models thaks to <a
href="http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/%7Ecjlin/libsvm">libsvm</a>.</li>
<li>Simpler installation: External dependencies only from
out-of-the-box <a href="http://www.boost.org">libboost</a>
packages.</li>
<li>Compilable in Linux, MacOSX, and Windows (with MSVC).</li>
<li>Improved server mode.</li>
</ul>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Lluís Padró<br>
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Lluís Padró
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Centre de Recerca TALP
UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~padro">http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~padro</a>
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