Alvis-NLPPlatform version 0.3
================================

This is a module to annotate Web document in the ALVIS pipeline.

Contains this :

    alvis-nlp-standalone (for a standalone annotation process, out of the ALVIS pipeline)
    alvis-nlp-server (Server for a client/server process in the ALVIS pipeline)
    alvis-nlp-client (Client for a client/server process in the ALVIS pipeline)

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

Or if you don't have the "make" program:

   perl Build.PL
   Build
   Build test
   Build install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires the other modules and libraries:

 Time::HiRes
 IO::Socket
 XML::Parser::PerlSAX
 Alvis::TermTagger
 Getopt::Long
 Alvis::Pipeline
 XML::LibXML
 IO::File
 IO::Socket::INET
 Getopt::Long
 Pod::Usage
 Config::General
 Sys::Hostname
 Fcntl
 utf8
 Encode

Corresponding Debian packages are : 

  libconfig-general-perl and libxml-perl

  (apt-get install libconfig-general-perl libxml-perl)

In case of use of Link Grammar parser for syntactic parsing, an 
additional patch for the Link Grammar parser is required
(lib/Alvis/NLPPlatform/patches).


CONFIGURATION AND NLP TOOLS INSTALLATION

See man Alvis::NLPPlatform.3pm (or documentation in the module
Alvis::NLPPlatform.pm).

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Thierry Hamon and Julien Deriviere

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.