MtSeg The Multext multilingual segmenter tools Di Cristo Philippe, CNRS

The purpose of the segmenter is to split a text into words and special tokens such as abbreviations and numbers, as well as certain multi-word units, and to detect and mark sentence boundaries.

Contents

• Overview
• Description of the segmenter's tools
• Description of the segmenter's resources
• User Agreement
• Downloading MtSeg on your system
• Downloading MtSeg Resources on your system
• Installing MtSeg on your system
• Using MtSeg
• Known bugs and limitations

Annexes

• Multext Intertools format
• Classes resource file
• Punctuation resource file
• Abbreviation resource file
• Merge resource file
• Split resource file
• Digital resource file
• Enumeration resource file
• Sentence resource file

Recently

• News and Changes (last changes 05/05/1996)

Credits

The segmenter has been developed in the context of the MULTEXT project.

Author

Philippe Di Cristo

Laboratoire Parole et Langage

CNRS & Université de Provence
29, Avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France
tel : (+33) 04 42 95 36 34
fax : (+33) 04 42 59 50 96
e-mail: multext@lpl.univ-aix.fr

Other contributors

Various people have contributed to the conception, improvement and documentation of the segmenter.

Please send comments and suggestions to multext@lpl.univ-aix.fr.

Copyright © Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1996.

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