Alvis-NLPPlatform version 0.6
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This is a module to annotate Web document in the ALVIS pipeline.

Contains this :

    alvis-nlp-standalone (for a standalone annotation process, out of the ALVIS pipeline)
    alvis-nlp-server (Server for a client/server process in the ALVIS pipeline)
    alvis-nlp-client (Client for a client/server process in the ALVIS pipeline)

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

Or if you don't have the "make" program:

   perl Build.PL
   Build
   Build test
   Build install

 It requires Mdoule::Build version 0.28 (at least) and File::chmod

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires the other modules and libraries:

  Time::HiRes
  IO
  XML::Parser::PerlSAX
  Data::Dumper
  Alvis::TermTagger
  Alvis::Pipeline
  Alvis::Convert
  XML::LibXML
  IO::File
  IO::Socket::INET
  Getopt::Long
  Pod::Usage
  Config::General
  Sys::Hostname
  Fcntl
  utf8
  File::Touch
  File::Basename
  Encode
  Fcntl
  File::Path
  File::MMagic
  File::Basename
  Lingua::Identify
  XML::Parser
  Parse::Yapp

Corresponding Debian packages are : 

  libconfig-general-perl and libxml-perl

  (apt-get install libconfig-general-perl libxml-perl)

In case of use of Link Grammar parser for syntactic parsing, an 
additional patch for the Link Grammar parser is required
(lib/Alvis/NLPPlatform/patches).


CONFIGURATION AND NLP TOOLS INSTALLATION

See man Alvis::NLPPlatform.3pm (or documentation in the module
Alvis::NLPPlatform.pm).

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Thierry Hamon and Julien Deriviere

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


