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Multi-lingual Noun Phrase Extractor (MuNPEx)

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Overview
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Version history
Acknowledgements

MuNPEx is a multi-lingual noun phrase (NP) extraction component developed for the GATE architecture, implemented in JAPE. It currently supports English, German, French, and Spanish (in beta).

MuNPEx requires a part-of-speech (POS) tagger to work and can additionally use detected named entities (NEs) to improve chunking performance. Please read the documentation (or source code) for more details.

Overview

MuNPEx is a multi-lingual noun phrase (NP) extraction component developed for the GATE architecture, implemented in JAPE. It currently supports English, German, French, and Spanish (in beta).

MuNPEx has been developed by René Witte and is distributed as free/open source software under the GNU GPL license.

Download

Latest version is v0.2 from 03.03.2006:

download the gzipped tar archive, MuNPEx-0.2.tar.gz
there is also some documentation available (PDF format)
as well as the GNU GPL license for MuNPEx
you can additionally get the JAPE Number Transducer

to improve noun phrase chunking performance with number entities (for all languages)

Version history

0.2: 03.03.2006. Preliminary Spanish support added. Renamed from "NPE" to "MuNPEx". Small cleanups. Number transducer added.
0.1: 21.11.2005. Initial public release.