/*  Copyright @ 1993 MIT and the University of Pennsylvania*/
 Written by Eric Brill 
 brill@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu
 (After July 1 1994, my email address will be brill@blaze.cs.jhu.edu)
 Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, . . .
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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND M.I.T. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS 
OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.  By way of example, but not 
limitation, M.I.T. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF 
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF 
THE LICENSED SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY 
PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS.
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You MUST read the copyright file included with the tagger (COPYRIGHT)
before doing anything else. 
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To compile the programs, type (in the tagger base directory):

make

or first edit the Makefile to suit your needs.

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Please read the other readme files and the copyright file.

Please send questions, comments,suggestions and bug reports to
brill@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (after July 1 1994, my email address will
be brill@blaze.cs.jhu.edu).

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About the README files (all of which can be found in the Docs/
directory):

If you don't care how it works, and just want to use it as-is, read:
	README.QUICK

If you want to know more details about how it works, how to modify the
code, how to add rules, how to do incorporate extra information, etc,
read:
	README.LONG

If you may want to train up another set of rules, read:
	README.TRAINING

If you want to find out more about the n-best tagger, read:
	README.NBEST

For a recent paper on the tagger, see:
	aaai94-tagger.ps

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IMPORTANT:  If you have retrieved this program via anonymous ftp,
please send me mail letting me know that you are using the tagger so I
can keep you up to date on bug fixes, new versions, etc.

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For a detailed description of the tagger (beyond what is contained in
the README files), see:

\bibitem[Bri92] E.~Brill.
\newblock A simple rule-based part of speech tagger.
\newblock In {\em Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural
  Language Processing, ACL}, Trento, Italy, 1992.

\bibitem[Bri93] E.~Brill.
\newblock {\em A Corpus-Based Approach to Language Learning}.
\newblock PhD thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science,
  University of Pennsylvania, 1993.

\bibitem[Bri94] E.~Brill.
\newblock Some advances in rule-based part of speech tagging
\newblock  Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on
   Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, Wa., 1994.

(these papers are available from anonymous ftp to
lightning.lcs.mit.edu in pub/BRILL/Papers.  The last paper is included
with this distribution, in the Docs/ directory.  After July 1, 1994,
contact me at brill@blaze.cs.jhu.edu for information about how to
obtain these papers).

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