Lingua-Align - a toolbox for syntactic tree alignment
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INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DOCUMENTATION
Look at the files in doc/
To run on some small sample data: look at examples/europarl/
and run "make test" (look into the Makefile for more information)
Other tests can be run on Smultron data (in examples/smultron/)
Download the treebank from http://kitt.cl.uzh.ch/kitt/smultron/
Using Lingua::Align for word alignment is demonstrated in examples/wpt03
ATTENTION:
- The aligner uses "megam" as the base classifier which is
provided as a pre-compiles binary in bin/megam for i686 Linux platforms!
- For Mac-OS X (10.4 or higher):
Replace bin/megam with bin/megam.osx
- For other platforms:
You need to dowload the source code of megam and compile it for your
system! The source code (and documentation) is here:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/megam/
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
XML::Parser
IPC::Open3
Algorithm::Munkres
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Joerg Tiedemann
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
Copyright for MegaM by Hal Daume III
see http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/megam/ for more information
Paper: Notes on CG and LM-BFGS Optimization of Logistic Regression, 2004
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume04cg-bfgs.pdf