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= MentionDetector =

This page offers the official [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US|Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License]] release of the MentionDetector, a tool for performing mention detection for coreference resolution. By downloading the MentionDetector package you accept the conditions of that licence.

'''Principal developer:'''
[[MateuszKopec|Mateusz Kopeć]]<<BR>>
'''Author:'''
[[MateuszKopec|Mateusz Kopeć]]<<BR>>
'''License:''' CC BY v.3

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== Downloads ==

You may check out the source code from [[http://git.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/core/md|git repository]].

The manual and description of MentionDetector is available [[http://git.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/core/md/blob/master/doc/manual.pdf|here]].

== Maven ==
If you want to use MentionDetector as Maven dependency, in your {{{pom.xml}}} file:
 * add repository information:
{{{#!highlight xml
<repositories>
  ...
  <repository>
    <id>zil-maven-repo</id>
    <name>ZIL maven repository</name>
    <url>http://maven.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/content/repositories/releases</url>
  </repository>
  ...
</repositories>
}}}
 * and dependency information:
{{{#!highlight xml
<dependencies>
 ...
  <dependency>
    <groupId>pl.waw.ipipan.zil.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>md</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>
  </dependency>
 ...
</dependencies>
}}}
== Online demo ==

[[http://multiservice.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/|Multiservice]] offers an online demo of MentionDetector. You need to select a chain of preprocessing actions before adding MentionDetector as the last component. For example, try: Concraft, Spejd, Nerf, MentionDetector.


You may also want to see [[PolishCoreferenceTools|other Polish Coreference Tools]].

== Citing ==
When using MentionDetector, you may cite the following article, which describes zero mention detection algorithm:
<<BibMate(key, "kop:14:eacl:short", omitYears=true)>>