
This package contains the TreeTagger, a probabilistic part-of-speech
tagger developed by Helmut Schmid. All rights are reserved by the 
Institute for Computational Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.
The programs have been compiled for Sun Sparcstations with SunOS operating
system version 5.6 or higher. 

Files contained in this package:

- FILES                 this file
- COPYRIGHT             Copyright notice
- README                How to use the tagger
- bin/train-tree-tagger training program
- bin/tree-tagger       tagger programm
- cmd/lookup.perl       Perl script for pretagging
- doc/nemlap94.ps       paper describing the TreeTagger
- doc/sigdat95.ps       paper describing the TreeTagger

This package can be downloaded at 
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/Tools/DecisionTreeTagger.html

Also available at this URL:
- parameter files
- shell scripts which convert text to the format required by the tagger
- papers about the TreeTagger

The shell script package should be unpacked in the same directory as the
tagger package and the parameter files should be decompressed and moved
to the lib subdirectory.
