Xtract Users?

Ted Pedersen (pedersen@seas.smu.edu)
Sat, 14 Oct 1995 10:07:45 -0500 (CDT)

I am just beginning to use Xtract and had a couple of questions for
those of you who have wored with this system.

I would like to use Xtract with untagged text. However, the program
xtract0 just doesn't produce any results for me. Has anyone either
used xtract0 successfully or had this problem? I'd like to hear from
you in either case and would appreciate any suggestions as to what
might be happening.

Xtract requires that its tagged input be tagged by (or in the style of)
the "AT&T Stochastic Tagger". Is this tagger ftp-able or somehow
available? I believe this is the tagger described by in

Church 1988, A Stochastic Parts Program and Poun Phrase Parser for
Unrestricted Text, in Proceedings of the second Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing.

Thanks,
Ted

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