<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>Nerf</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>15</revnumber><date>2017-03-17 14:01:14</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>14</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 11:03:43</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 10:55:00</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 10:43:44</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 10:36:17</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 10:25:57</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 10:25:07</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2013-02-01 10:16:08</date><authorinitials>JakubWaszczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2013-01-23 12:25:44</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2013-01-23 12:19:02</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2012-06-25 19:29:44</date><authorinitials>BeataWojtowicz</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2012-06-19 10:41:22</date><authorinitials>MichalLenart</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2012-06-19 10:41:13</date><authorinitials>MichalLenart</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2012-05-14 09:49:49</date><authorinitials>BeataWojtowicz</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2012-05-14 09:48:23</date><authorinitials>BeataWojtowicz</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Nerf</title><para>Nerf is a statistical named entity recognition tool based on linear-chain conditional random fields. </para><para><emphasis role="strong">Principal developer:</emphasis> <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/JakubWaszczuk">Jakub Waszczuk</ulink> </para><para> <emphasis role="strong">License:</emphasis> GPL v.3 </para><section><title>Documentation</title><para>See the <ulink url="https://github.com/kawu/nerf/blob/master/README.md#nerf">README</ulink> file from the development repository. </para></section><section><title>Downloads</title><para>Nerf is available in a form of a software distribution which can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/nerf">Hackage</ulink> using the <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/cabal/">Cabal</ulink> tool.  To compile Nerf you will also need the <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">Glasgow Haskell Compiler</ulink> (GHC).  The simplest way to get both Cabal and GHC is to install the <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/platform/">Haskell Platform</ulink>.  Please see the documentation for more information about the installation process. </para><section><title>Pre-trained model</title><para>A model for the Polish language has been trained on the <ulink url="http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/LRT?action=AttachFile&amp;do=view&amp;target=NKJP-PodkorpusMilionowy-1.1.tgz">manually annotated subcorpus</ulink> of the <ulink url="http://nkjp.pl/index.php?page=0&amp;lang=1">National Corpus of Polish (NCP)</ulink>.  An archive file with the model can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/Nerf/Nerf?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=model-0.3-4.0.zip">here</ulink>.  The model can be used to recognize embedded structures of named entities consistent with the type hierarchy used in NCP. </para></section></section><section><title>Python version</title><para><emphasis role="strong">The Python version of Nerf is no longer supported.</emphasis> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">Authors:</emphasis> <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/JakubWaszczuk">Jakub Waszczuk</ulink>, <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/MichalLenart">Michał Lenart</ulink> </para><para> <emphasis role="strong">License:</emphasis> GPL v.3 </para><para>Readme file of the Python version, in English <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/Nerf/Nerf?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NERF.pdf">NERF.pdf</ulink> </para><para>You can download the obsolete distribution package from <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/Nerf/Nerf?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=nerf.dist.0.2.tgz">here</ulink>. The package consists of three components: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Python pycrf library, which has to be installed before the Nerf tool can be used, </para></listitem><listitem><para>The Nerf tool itself, </para></listitem><listitem><para>Supplementary data: trained models and examples of configuration files. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section></article>