Software and Tools

A few broad categories are used below to add some structure to this list. Some items fall into multiple categories but they are listed under the heading that they fit mostly.

Text Processing Tools:

ABNER: Biomedical Named Entity Recogniser
ANNIE: A Nearly-New IE system, bundled with GATE
BALIE: Baseline Information Extraction (BALIE) - Java toolkit
CALAIS Web Service
CLAIR: Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval (CLAIR) - Perl toolkit
FreeLing: C++ toolkit
Carabao Language Kit: A mutlipurpose text-to-knowledge suite with extensive customization
IBM LanguageWare: UIMA-compliant annotators, Eclipse plug-ins or Web Services
Lingpipe: Java toolkit
LT-XML2
MALLET: Java toolkit
Minor Third: Java toolkit
NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) - Python toolkit
OpenNLP: Java toolkit(s)
RAST: Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing
Stanford NLP Tools: Java toolkit

Text Processing Frameworks:

GATE: General Architecture for Text Engineering - Java toolkit
OpenPipeline: Open Source Java software for crawling, parsing, analyzing and routing documents.
UIMA: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - Java framework