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+TreeTagger part-of-speech tagging models for Sahidic Coptic
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+The part-of-speech tagging models are for use with the freely available TreeTagger 
+(http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/TreeTagger/). There models are based
+on the guidelines of the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project, which closely follow Layton's (2004)
+grammar. The lexicon used by the tagger is based on a lexicon kindly provided by Prof.
+Tito Orlandi and the CMCL project (http://cmcl.let.uniroma1.it/). Please cite the CMCL
+project whenever publishing research using the tagging models.
+
+There are two different models: one for the coarse grained tagset, with 22 tags, and one
+for the fine grained tagset, which distinguishes 44 tags (including individual tags for
+each positive and negative conjugation base). For details on the tagset, see the 
+documentation on the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM web page.
+
+To use the models, download and unzip the TreeTagger. In the folder bin/ you will find
+the TreeTagger excutable, which requires one of the two parameter files to run. TreeTagger
+also expects an input file in a one-token-per-line format. For exaple, the input file input.txt could
+include the following tokens (in UTF-8!): 
+
+p
+noute
+pe
+.
+
+These will be tagged as:
+
+p	ART
+noute	N
+pe	COP
+.	PUNCT
+
+To run the tagger, run the TreeTagger excutable as follows (Windows example): 
+
+tree-tagger.exe coptic.par -token input.txt output.txt
+
+The option -token tells the TreeTagger that the input is already tokenized. For a Coptic tokenizer, 
+see the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project web page. Further options, such as allowing for SGML tags in the
+input, are documented in the TreeTagger documentation.