Soft: Morphix-NLP

[alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR]

The Morphix-NLP project may be of interest for all those teaching in
NLP-related fields. As the original mirrors are located in China and
slow, or available through Bittorrent (which is generally firewalled),
the LIMSI-CNRS set up a mirror of the CD's iso image which should have
better transfer rates for europe. Following is a quick presentation of
the project. More information and links to the iso image at
http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/


Guillaume Pitel - LIMSI-CNRS

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Morphix-NLP is a Live CD Linux distribution with a rich collection of
Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Though the field of
NLP has undergone decades of intensive research, software designed in
the NLP community are often scattered around the net and are not known
by the larger computer user community. Consequently, most NLP software
can not be found in mainstream distributions even years after the
first public release.

The purpose of this CD is twofold:

* In the first place, it tries to break the software acquisition and
installation barrier facing many researchers and students in the NLP
community by providing most NLP related software on a single Live CD.

* In the second place, the CD can be used to promote Natural Language
Processing among average computer users. Simply plugging the CD into
cd-drive and watching some NLP applications in action, most users will
get some knowledge of Natural Language Processing and what NLP can do.

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