NAME

moottype - moocow's HMM part-of-speech tagger: token type classifier.


SYNOPSIS

moottype [OPTIONS] INPUT(s)

 Arguments:
    INPUT(s)  Input files / file-lists.
 Options
    -h          --help                      Print help and exit.
    -V          --version                   Print version and exit.
    -cFILE      --rcfile=FILE               Read an alternate configuration file.
    -vLEVEL     --verbose=LEVEL             Verbosity level.
    -l          --list                      INPUTs are file-lists, not filenames.
    -oFILE      --output=FILE               Specify output file (default=stdout).
 Format Options
    -IFORMAT    --input-format=FORMAT       Specify input file(s) format(s).
    -OFORMAT    --output-format=FORMAT      Specify output file format.
                --input-encoding=ENCODING   Override XML document input encoding.
                --output-encoding=ENCODING  Set default XML output encoding.


DESCRIPTION

moocow's HMM part-of-speech tagger: token type classifier.

'moottype' shows the types of its input tokens, as determined by compiled-in rules. Mainly useful for debugging.

It takes as its input one or more 'rare' (-tagged,-analyzed) or 'medium rare' (-tagged,+analyzed) files and produces a 'medium' (+tagged,-analyzed) or 'well done' (+tagged,+analyzed) file, respectively. See the mootfiles manpage for details on moot file formats.


ARGUMENTS

INPUT(s)
Input files / file-lists.

Input files should be 'cooked' text files of either the 'rare' (-tagged,-analyzed) or 'medium rare' (-tagged,+analyzed) variety.

See also the '--list' option.

For details on moot file formats, see the mootfiles manpage.


OPTIONS

--help , -h
Print help and exit.

Default: '0'

--version , -V
Print version and exit.

Default: '0'

--rcfile=FILE , -cFILE
Read an alternate configuration file.

Default: 'NULL'

See also: CONFIGURATION FILES.

--verbose=LEVEL , -vLEVEL
Verbosity level.

Default: '3'

Be more or less verbose. Recognized values are in the range 0..5:

  1. Be silent.

  2. Print error messages to stderr.

  3. Print warnings to stderr.

  4. Print summary information to stderr.

  5. Print progress information to stderr.

  6. Print everything.

--list , -l
INPUTs are file-lists, not filenames.

Default: '0'

Useful for large batch-processing jobs.

--output=FILE , -oFILE
Specify output file (default=stdout).

Default: '-'

Format Options

--input-format=FORMAT , -IFORMAT
Specify input file(s) format(s).

Default: 'NULL'

Value should be a comma-separated list of format flag names, optionally prefixed with an exclamation point (!) to indicate negation.

Default='MediumRare'

See 'I/O Format Flags' in the mootfiles manpage for details.

--output-format=FORMAT , -OFORMAT
Specify output file format.

Default: 'NULL'

Value should be a comma-separated list of format flag names, optionally prefixed with an exclamation point (!) to indicate negation.

Default='WellDone'

See 'I/O Format Flags' in the mootfiles manpage for details.

--input-encoding=ENCODING
Override XML document input encoding.

Default: 'NULL'

Potentially useful for XML documents without encoding declarations.

--output-encoding=ENCODING
Set default XML output encoding.

Default: 'NULL'

Slower, but potentially useful for human-readable XML output.


CONFIGURATION FILES

Configuration files are expected to contain lines of the form:

    LONG_OPTION_NAME    OPTION_VALUE

where LONG_OPTION_NAME is the long name of some option, without the leading '--', and OPTION_VALUE is the value for that option, if any. Fields are whitespace-separated. Blank lines and comments (lines beginning with '#') are ignored.

The following configuration files are read by default:


ADDENDA

About this Document

Documentation file auto-generated by optgen.perl version 0.04. Translation was initiated on Mon Jan 30 09:59:45 CET 2006 as:

   /usr/bin/optgen.perl -l --nocfile --nohfile -F moottype moottype.gog


BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

None known.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Development of this package was supported by the project 'Kollokationen im Wörterbuch' ( ``collocations in the dictionary'', http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/kollokationen ) in association with the project 'Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts (DWDS)' ( ``digital dictionary of the German language of the 20th century'', http://www.dwds.de ) at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften ( http://www.bbaw.de ) with funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung ( http://www.avh.de ) and from the Zukunftsinvestitionsprogramm of the German federal government.

I am grateful to Christiane Fellbaum, Alexander Geyken, Gerald Neumann, Edmund Pohl, Alexey Sokirko, and others for offering useful insights in the course of development of this package.

Thomas Hanneforth wrote and maintains the libFSM C++ library for finite-state device operations used by the class-based HMM tagger / disambiguator, without which this package could not have been built.

Alexander Geyken and Thomas Hanneforth developed the rule-based morphological analysis system for German which was used in the development and testing of the class-based HMM tagger / disambiguator.


AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish <moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.de>


SEE ALSO

the moot manpage the mootfiles manpage the mootpp manpage, mootm(1), the mootrain manpage, the mootcompile manpage, the mootdump manpage, the mooteval manpage,