• FlexCRFs: Flexible Conditional Random Fields

• CRFTagger: CRF English POS Chunker

• CRFChunker: CRF English Phrase Chunker

• JTextPro: A Java-based Text Processing Toolkit

• JWebPro: A Java-based Web Processing Toolkit

• JVnSegmenter: A Java-based Vietnamese Word Segmentation Tool

Do you have any other good choices? If you do have, please comment. Thanks.

The LIRE (Lucene Image REtrieval) library (Java based)

It is a CBIR system based on Lucene (Java-based) and Caliph and Emir. Caliph-emir is a Java & MPEG-7 based tools for annotation and retrieval of digital photos and images, supporting semantic annotation and content based, metadata based and semantic image retrieval.  Lucene is a full text retrieval package. It is easy to imagine that what jobs LIRE  can do according to its cores.

Also, it’s easy to incorporate context-based image retrieval into LIRE as Lucene  does the job naturally. But Lucene, I think,  is not suitable for academic research.  However,  at lease you can use Caliph-emir to extract the low level features of images, which could also be used in other IR systems.

LIRE can used out-of-the-box.

The GNU Image-Finding Tool(GIFT, C based)

The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBIR). It enables you to do Query By Example (QBE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBE) on images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. For processing your queries the program relies entirely on the content of the images, freeing you from the need to annotate all images before querying the collection.

The GIFT comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees containing images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its clients, to browse your own image collections

FIRE (CPP)

FIRE is an image retrieval system developed as part of the diploma thesis of Thomas Deselaers. Later, large parts were rewritten to make it more easily maintainable.

I. Information Retrieval
1. Lemur/Indri
The Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval
http://www.lemurproject.org/
Indri:
Lemur’s latest search engine

2. Lucene/Nutch
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
library written entirely in Java.
Lucene是apache的顶级开源项目，基于Apache 2.0协议，完全用java编写，具有perl, c/c++, dotNet等多个
port
http://lucene.apache.org/
http://www.nutch.org/

3. WGet
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,
HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-
interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts,
cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

II. Natural Language Processing
1. EGYPT: A Statistical Machine Translation Toolkit
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws99/projects/mt/
包括GIZA等四个工具

2. GIZA++ (Statistical Machine Translation)
http://www.fjoch.com/GIZA++.html
GIZA++ is an extension of the program GIZA (part of the SMT toolkit
EGYPT) which was developed by the Statistical Machine Translation team
during the summer workshop in 1999 at the Center for Language and
Speech Processing at Johns-Hopkins University (CLSP/JHU). GIZA++
includes a lot of additional features. The extensions of GIZA++ were
designed and written by Franz Josef Och.
Franz Josef Och先后在德国Aachen大学，ISI(南加州大学信息科学研究所)和Google工作。GIZA++现已有
Windows移植版本，对IBM 的model 1-5有很好支持。

3. PHARAOH (Statistical Machine Translation)
http://www.isi.edu/licensed-sw/pharaoh/
a beam search decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation
models

4. OpenNLP:
http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/
包括Maxent等20多个工具

btw: 这些SMT的工具还都喜欢用埃及相关的名字命名，像什么GIZA、PHARAOH、Cairo等等。Och在ISI时开发了GIZA+
+，PHARAOH也是由来自ISI的Philipp Koehn 开发的，关系还真是复杂啊

5. MINIPAR by Dekang Lin (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
MINIPAR is a broad-coverage parser for the English language. An
evaluation with the SUSANNE corpus shows that MINIPAR achieves about
88% precision and 80% recall with respect to dependency relationships.
MINIPAR is very efficient, on a Pentium II 300 with 128MB memory, it
parses about 300 words per second.
binary填一个表后可以免费下载
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/minipar.htm

6. WordNet
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
WordNet is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired
by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English
nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets,
each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations
link the synonym sets.
WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton
University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller
(Principal Investigator).
WordNet最新版本是2.1 (for Windows & Unix-like OS)，提供bin, src和doc。
WordNet的在线版本是http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

7. HowNet
http://www.keenage.com/
HowNet is an on-line common-sense knowledge base unveiling inter-
conceptual relations and inter-attribute relations of concepts as
connoting in lexicons of the Chinese and their English equivalents.
由CAS的Zhendong Dong & Qiang Dong开发，是一个类似于WordNet的东东

8. Statistical Language Modeling Toolkit
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html
The CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling toolkit is a suite of
UNIX software tools to facilitate the construction and testing of
statistical language models.

9. SRI Language Modeling Toolkit
www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/
SRILM is a toolkit for building and applying statistical language
models (LMs), primarily for use in speech recognition, statistical
tagging and segmentation. It has been under development in the SRI
Speech Technology and Research Laboratory since 1995.

10. ReWrite Decoder
http://www.isi.edu/licensed-sw/rewrite-decoder/
The ISI ReWrite Decoder Release 1.0.0a by Daniel Marcu and Ulrich
Germann. It is a program that translates from one natural languge into
another using statistical machine translation.

11. GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering)
http://gate.ac.uk/
A Java Library for Text Engineering

III. Machine Learning
1. YASMET: Yet Another Small MaxEnt Toolkit (Statistical Machine
Learning)
http://www.fjoch.com/YASMET.html
由Franz Josef Och编写。此外，OpenNLP项目里有一个java的MaxEnt工具，使用GIS估计参数，由东北大学的张乐(目前在
英国留学)port为C++版本

2. LibSVM
由国立台湾大学(ntu)的Chih-Jen Lin开发，有C++，Java，perl，C#等多个语言版本
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
LIBSVM is an integrated software for support vector classification, (C-
SVC, nu-SVC ), regression (epsilon-SVR, nu-SVR) and distribution
estimation (one-class SVM ). It supports multi-class classification.

3. SVM Light
由cornell的Thorsten Joachims在dortmund大学时开发，成为LibSVM之后最为有名的SVM软件包。开源，用C语言编
写，用于ranking问题
http://svmlight.joachims.org/

4. CLUTO
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/cluto/
a software package for clustering low- and high-dimensional datasets
这个软件包只提供executable/library两种形式，不提供源代码下载

5. CRF++
http://chasen.org/~taku/software/CRF++/
Yet Another CRF toolkit fo
r segmenting/labelling sequential data
CRF(Conditional Random Fields)，由HMM/MEMM发展起来，广泛用于IE、IR、NLP领域

6. SVM Struct
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/tj/svm_light/svm_struct.html
同SVM Light，均由cornell的Thorsten Joachims开发。
SVMstruct is a Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm for predicting
multivariate outputs. It performs supervised learning by approximating
a mapping
h: X –> Y
using labeled training examples (x1,y1), …, (xn,yn).
Unlike regular SVMs, however, which consider only univariate
predictions like in classification and regression, SVMstruct can
predict complex objects y like trees, sequences, or sets. Examples of
problems with complex outputs are natural language parsing, sequence
alignment in protein homology detection, and markov models for part-of-
speech tagging.
SVMstruct can be thought of as an API for implementing different kinds
of complex prediction algorithms. Currently, we have implemented the
following learning tasks:
SVMmulticlass: Multi-class classification. Learns to predict one of k
mutually exclusive classes. This is probably the simplest possible
instance of SVMstruct and serves as a tutorial example of how to use
the programming interface.
SVMcfg: Learns a weighted context free grammar from examples. Training
examples (e.g. for natural language parsing) specify the sentence
along with the correct parse tree. The goal is to predict the parse
tree of new sentences.
SVMalign: Learning to align sequences. Given examples of how sequence
pairs align, the goal is to learn the substitution matrix as well as
the insertion and deletion costs of operations so that one can predict
alignments of new sequences.
SVMhmm: Learns a Markov model from examples. Training examples (e.g.
for part-of-speech tagging) specify the sequence of words along with
the correct assignment of tags (i.e. states). The goal is to predict
the tag sequences for new sentences.

IV. Misc:
1. Notepad++: 一个开源编辑器，支持C#，perl，CSS等几十种语言的关键字，功能可与新版的UltraEdit，Visual
Studio .NET媲美
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

2. WinMerge: 用于文本内容比较，找出不同版本的两个程序的差异
winmerge.sourceforge.net/

3. OpenPerlIDE: 开源的perl编辑器，内置编译、逐行调试功能
open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/
ps: 论起编辑器偶见过的最好的还是VS .NET了，在每个function前面有+/-号支持expand/collapse，支持区域
copy/cut/paste，使用ctrl+ c/ctrl+x/ctrl+v可以一次选取一行，使用ctrl+k+c/ctrl+k+u可以
comment/uncomment多行，还有还有…… Visual Studio .NET is really kool:D

4. Berkeley DB
http://www.sleepycat.com/
Berkeley DB不是一个关系数据库，它被称做是一个嵌入式数据库：对于c/s模型来说，它的client和server共用一个地址空间。由于
数据库最初是从文件系统中发展起来的，它更像是一个key-value pair的字典型数据库。而且数据库文件能够序列化到硬盘中，所以不受内存大小
限制。BDB有个子版本Berkeley DB XML，它是一个xml数据库：以xml文件形式存储数据？BDB已被包括
microsoft、google、HP、ford、motorola等公司嵌入到自己的产品中去了
Berkeley DB (libdb) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded
database support for both traditional and client/server applications.
It includes b+tree, queue, extended linear hashing, fixed, and
variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging,
shared memory caching, database recovery, and replication for highly
available systems. DB supports C, C++, Java, PHP, and Perl APIs.
It turns out that at a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high
performance, reliable way of persisting dictionary style data
structures – anything where a piece of data can be stored and looked
up using a unique key. The key and the value can each be up to 4
gigabytes in length and can consist of anything that can be crammed in
to a string of bytes, so what you do with it is completely up to you.
The only operations available are “store this value under this key”,
“check if this key exists” and “retrieve the value for this key” so
conceptually it’s pretty simple – the complicated stuff all happens
under the hood.
case study:
Ask Jeeves uses Berkeley DB to provide an easy-to-use tool for
searching the Internet.
Microsoft uses Berkeley DB for the Groove collaboration software
AOL uses Berkeley DB for search tool meta-data and other services.
Hitachi uses Berkeley DB in its directory services server product.
Ford uses Berkeley DB to authenticate partners who access Ford’s Web
applications.
Hewlett Packard uses Berkeley DB in serveral products, including
storage, security and wireless software.
Google uses Berkeley DB High Availability for Google Accounts.
Motorola uses Berkeley DB to track mobile units in its wireless radio
network products.

5. LaTeX
LATEX, written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document preparation
system for the TeX typesetting program.
It offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive
facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop
publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and
figures, page layout, bibliographies, and much more. LaTeX was
originally written in 1984 by Leslie Lamport and has become the
dominant method for using TeX-few people write in plain TeX anymore.
The current version is LaTeX2ε.
中文套装可以在http://www.ctex.org%e6%89%be/到
http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/2001315450/comp.html by王垠

6. EditPlus
http://www.editplus.com/
EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit text editor, HTML editor and
programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good
replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for Web
page authors and programmers.
EditPlus当前最新版本是2.21，BrE和AmE的spell checker需要单独下载安装包安装

7. GVim: Vi IMproved
http://www.vim.org/index.php
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the
de-facto Unix editor ‘Vi’, with a more complete feature set. It’s
useful whether you’re already using vi or using a different editor.
Users of Vim 5 should consider upgrading to Vim 6, which is greatly
enhanced since Vim 5. Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and
so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It’s
not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text
editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
普通windows用户可以从这个链接下载ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim64.exe

8. Cygwin: GNU + Cygnus + Windows
http://www.cygwin.com/
Cygwin is a Linux-like
environment for Windows. It consists of two
parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer
providing substantial Linux API functionality. A collection of tools,
which provide Linux look and feel.

9. MinGW: Minimalistic GNU for Windows
http://www.mingw.org/
MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable
Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU
toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not
rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs.
在windows下编译、移植unix/linux平台的软件。cygwin相当于在windows系统层上模拟了一个POSIX-compliant
的layer(库文件是cygwin1.dll)；而mingw则是使用 windows自身的库文件(msvcrt.dll)实现了一些符合
POSIX spec的功能，并不是完全POSIX-compliant。mingw其实是cygwin的一个branch，由于它没有实现
linux api的模拟层，所以开销要比cygwin低些。

10. CutePDF Writer
http://www.cutepdf.com/
Portable Document format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure
and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and
forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is
the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer
installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any
Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional
quality PDF documents – with just a push of a button!
比起acrobat来，一大优点就是它是免费的。而且一般word图表、公式的转换效果很好，what you see is what you
get，哈哈。可能需要ps2pdf converter，在该站点有链接提供下载

11. R
http://www.r-project.org/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and
environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T,
now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be
considered as a different implementation of S. There are some
important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered
under R.
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear
modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,
classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is
highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for
research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source
route to participation in that activity.
One of R’s strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-
quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and
formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for
the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full
control.
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software
Foundation’s GNU General Public License in source code form. It
compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar
systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.
R统计软件与MatLab类似，都是用在科学计算领域的。不同的是它是开源的东东:)

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