README.md

Requirements

• python3
• perl
• nltk (for stanford pos tagger)
• java (for stanford tools)
• zsh
• task datasets (see below)

Links to tasks/data sets

• ACE 2004 (https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2005T09)
• ACE 2005 (https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T06)
• SemEval 2010 Task 8 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QO_CnmvNRnYwNWu1-QCAeR5ToQYkXUqFeAJbdEhsq7w/preview)

Please note that ACE corpora are not free.

Usage

download Stanford Core NLP & POS tagger

cd common
wget http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-corenlp-full-2015-04-20.zip
wget http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-postagger-2015-04-20.zip
unzip stanford-corenlp-full-2015-04-20.zip
unzip stanford-postagger-2015-04-20.zip
cd ..

copy and convert each corpus

Please set the environment variables for the directories, or directly put the directories in the following commands beforehand.

ACE 2004

cp -r ${ACE2004_DIR}/*/english ace2004/
cd ace2004
zsh run.zsh
cd ..

ACE 2005

cp -r ${ACE2005_DIR}/*/English ace2005/
cd ace2005
zsh run.zsh
cd ..

SemEval 2010 Task 8

cp ${SEMEVAL_TRAIN_DIR}/TRAIN_FILE.TXT semeval-2010/
cp ${SEMEVAL_TEST_DIR}/TEST_FILE.txt semeval-2010/
cd semeval-2010/
zsh run.zsh
cd ..