[Corpora-List] Natural Language Toolkit: NLTK-Lite version 0.6.5 released

[Steven Bird]

NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a suite of Python libraries and
programs for natural language processing.  Version 0.6.5 has been
released, and can be downloaded from  http://nltk.sourceforge.net/

CONTENTS

Software Modules:  corpus readers, tokenizers & stemmers, taggers
(regexp, n-gram, backoff, Brill, HMM), parsers (recursive descent,
shift-reduce, chart, probabilistic, ...), clusterers (EM, k-means,
...), probability distributions, chatbots, demonstrations, ...

Corpora and Corpus Samples: Brown Corpus, CMU Pronunciation
Dictionary, CoNNL-2000, Genesis, Gutenberg, IEER, Presidential
Addresses, Names, PP-Attachment, Senseval 2, TIMIT, Treebank, Words

Documentation: Tutorials and exercises (190pp), API documentation for
all software modules, installation instructions for Windows, Mac,
Unix.

ChangeLog for Version 0.6.5 2006-07-09

* Code:
  - improvements to shoebox module (Stuart Robinson, Greg Aumann)
  - incorporated feature-based parsing into core NLTK-Lite
  - corpus reader for Sinica treebank sample
  - new stemmer package
* Contrib:
  - hole semantics implementation (Peter Wang)
  - Incorporating yaml
  - new work on feature structures, unification, lambda calculus
  - new work on shoebox package (Stuart Robinson, Greg Aumann)
* Corpora:
  - Sinica treebank sample
* Tutorials:
  - expanded discussion throughout, incl: left-recursion, trees, grammars,
    feature-based grammar, agreement, unification, PCFGs,
    baseline performance, exercises, improved display of trees

-Steven Bird