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Title	FreeLing 1.3: Syntactic and semantic services in an open-source NLP library
Authors	J. Atserias, B. Casas, E. Comelles, M. González, L. Padró, M. Padró
Abstract	This paper describes version 1.3 of the FreeLing suite of NLP tools. FreeLing was first released in February 2004 providing morphological analysis and PoS tagging for Catalan, Spanish, and English. From then on, the package has been improved and enlarged to cover more languages (i.e. Italian and Galician) and offer more services: Named entity recognition and classification, chunking, dependency parsing, and WordNet based semantic annotation. FreeLing is not conceived as end-user oriented tool, but as library on top of which powerful NLP applications can be developed. Nevertheless, sample interface programs are provided, which can be straightforwardly used as fast, flexible, and efficient corpus processing tools. A remarkable feature of FreeLing is that it is distributed under a free-software LGPL license, thus enabling any developer to adapt the package to his needs in order to get the most suitable behaviour for the application being developed.
Keywords	Corpus analysis tools, morphological analysis, PoS tagging, Named Entity recognition and Classification, Semantic annotation, free software.
Full paper	FreeLing 1.3: Syntactic and semantic services in an open-source NLP library

Title

FreeLing 1.3: Syntactic and semantic services in an open-source NLP library

Authors

J. Atserias, B. Casas, E. Comelles, M. González, L. Padró, M. Padró

Abstract

This paper describes version 1.3 of the FreeLing suite of NLP tools. FreeLing was first released in February 2004 providing morphological analysis and PoS tagging for Catalan, Spanish, and English. From then on, the package has been improved and enlarged to cover more languages (i.e. Italian and Galician) and offer more services: Named entity recognition and classification, chunking, dependency parsing, and WordNet based semantic annotation. FreeLing is not conceived as end-user oriented tool, but as library on top of which powerful NLP applications can be developed. Nevertheless, sample interface programs are provided, which can be straightforwardly used as fast, flexible, and efficient corpus processing tools. A remarkable feature of FreeLing is that it is distributed under a free-software LGPL license, thus enabling any developer to adapt the package to his needs in order to get the most suitable behaviour for the application being developed.

Keywords

Corpus analysis tools, morphological analysis, PoS tagging, Named Entity recognition and Classification, Semantic annotation, free software.

Full paper

FreeLing 1.3: Syntactic and semantic services in an open-source NLP library