Support for users of CCG software closed 7-27-20

[Jeff Dalton <jdalton AT cs.umass.edu>]

I'm a PhD student at UMass Amherst in the CIIR.  I am trying to run the UIUC NER tagger for a project I am working on.  I downloaded the the distribution from the website.  However, when I try to run it, I get the error:  "ERROR: Can't locate NETaggerLevel1.lc in the class path."  I cannot locate the specified file in the distribution.  It looks like the output of the saved classifier instance.   From the code in NETaggerLevel1.java, it is not clear what the appropriate seeting for lcFilePath is, or how I should create it.  I assume it is created as part of the training process. I tried to run the training command, but it fails in the same location. Could you perhaps shed some light on this mystery?  

Also, the parser appears to be loading data in Reuters format.  I have the conll data and the data format appears to differ.  Are there scripts to convert between the formats?  Perhaps I am missing a bit of documentation on training.  I'd like to try and reproduce the conll results.

I would appreciate any help you could give.

Cheers,

- Jeff