NERF

This is the official page of Nerf, a tool for Nested Named Entity Recognition based on the Conditional Random Fields modelling technique. The Nerf tool is released under the GNU General Public License v3 and by downloading the Nerf package you accept the conditions of that licence.

Author: Jakub Waszczuk <jakub DOT waszczuk AT SPAMFREE ipipan DOT waw DOT pl>
Author: Michał Lenart <michal DOT lenart AT SPAMFREE ipipan DOT waw DOT pl>

Documentation

Readme file of the current version, in English NERF.pdf

Downloads

You can download the current distribution package from here. The package consists of three components:

• Python pycrf library, which has to be installed before the Nerf tool can be used,
• The Nerf tool itself,
• Supplementary data: trained models and examples of configuration files.

You can also download the newest versions of both pycrf library and Nerf tool directly from repositories:

• svn co svn://chopin.ipipan.waw.pl/nkjp/pycrf/trunk pycrf
• svn co svn://chopin.ipipan.waw.pl/nkjp/ner/trunk ner

If you have any problems with tool installation or usage, please send report to waszczuk.kuba@gmail.com.