rbtagger 0.3.2 → 0.4.0

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  1. data/README +44 -0
  2. data/Rakefile +78 -4
  3. data/ext/rule_tagger/registry.c +4 -4
  4. data/ext/rule_tagger/registry.h +1 -1
  5. data/ext/word_tagger/rtagger.cc +23 -1
  6. data/ext/word_tagger/tagger.cc +9 -4
  7. data/ext/word_tagger/tagger.h +2 -0
  8. data/ext/word_tagger/test.rb +2 -2
  9. data/lib/brill/brown/{LEXICON → Lexicon.rb} +0 -0
  10. data/lib/brill/tagger.rb +1 -1
  11. data/lib/rbtagger.rb +0 -3
  12. data/lib/rbtagger/version.rb +2 -2
  13. data/lib/word/tagger.rb +2 -1
  14. metadata +38 -101
  15. data/COPYING +0 -21
  16. data/History.txt +0 -4
  17. data/License.txt +0 -20
  18. data/Manifest.txt +0 -82
  19. data/PostInstall.txt +0 -1
  20. data/README.txt +0 -51
  21. data/config/hoe.rb +0 -74
  22. data/config/requirements.rb +0 -15
  23. data/ext/rule_tagger/mkmf.log +0 -46
  24. data/ext/word_tagger/mkmf.log +0 -24
  25. data/ext/word_tagger/test/Makefile +0 -22
  26. data/ext/word_tagger/test/doc.txt +0 -87
  27. data/lib/brill/brown/CONTEXTUALRULEFILE +0 -284
  28. data/lib/brill/brown/LEXICALRULEFILE +0 -148
  29. data/script/console +0 -10
  30. data/script/destroy +0 -14
  31. data/script/generate +0 -14
  32. data/script/txt2html +0 -82
  33. data/setup.rb +0 -1585
  34. data/tasks/deployment.rake +0 -34
  35. data/tasks/environment.rake +0 -7
  36. data/tasks/extconf.rake +0 -18
  37. data/tasks/extconf/rule_tagger.rake +0 -43
  38. data/tasks/extconf/word_tagger.rake +0 -43
  39. data/tasks/website.rake +0 -17
  40. data/test/docs/doc0.txt +0 -20
  41. data/test/docs/doc1.txt +0 -11
  42. data/test/docs/doc2.txt +0 -52
  43. data/test/docs/doc3.txt +0 -128
  44. data/test/docs/doc4.txt +0 -337
  45. data/test/docs/doc5.txt +0 -497
  46. data/test/docs/doc6.txt +0 -116
  47. data/test/docs/doc7.txt +0 -101
  48. data/test/docs/doc8.txt +0 -25
  49. data/test/docs/doc9.txt +0 -84
  50. data/test/fixtures/tags.txt +0 -976
  51. data/test/test_helper.rb +0 -5
  52. data/test/test_rule_tagger.rb +0 -151
  53. data/test/test_word_tagger.rb +0 -47
  54. data/tools/rakehelp.rb +0 -113
  55. data/website/index.html +0 -231
  56. data/website/index.txt +0 -70
  57. data/website/javascripts/rounded_corners_lite.inc.js +0 -285
  58. data/website/stylesheets/screen.css +0 -138
  59. data/website/template.html.erb +0 -184
data/COPYING DELETED
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- The MIT License
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-
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- Copyright (c) 2008 Todd A. Fisher
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-
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- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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- of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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- in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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- to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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- copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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- furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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- all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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-
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- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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- AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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- LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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- OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
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- THE SOFTWARE.
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- == 0.0.1 2008-05-14
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- * 1 major enhancement:
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- * Initial release
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- Copyright (c) 2008 FIXME full name
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- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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- a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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- distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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- permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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- the following conditions:
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- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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- NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
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- LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
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- OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
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- WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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- COPYING
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- History.txt
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- LICENSE
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- License.txt
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- Manifest.txt
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- PostInstall.txt
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- README
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- README.txt
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- Rakefile
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- config/hoe.rb
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- config/requirements.rb
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- ext/rule_tagger/bool.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/darray.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/darray.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/darrayP.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/extconf.rb
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- ext/rule_tagger/lex.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/lex.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/memory.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/memory.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/mkmf.log
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- ext/rule_tagger/rbtagger.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/registry.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/registry.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/registryP.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/ruby-compat.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/rules.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/rules.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/sysdep.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/tagger.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/tagger.h
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- ext/rule_tagger/useful.c
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- ext/rule_tagger/useful.h
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- ext/word_tagger/extconf.rb
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- ext/word_tagger/mkmf.log
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- ext/word_tagger/porter_stemmer.c
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- ext/word_tagger/porter_stemmer.h
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- ext/word_tagger/rtagger.cc
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- ext/word_tagger/tagger.cc
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- ext/word_tagger/tagger.h
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- ext/word_tagger/test.rb
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- ext/word_tagger/test/Makefile
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- ext/word_tagger/test/doc.txt
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- ext/word_tagger/test/test.cc
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- lib/brill/tagger.rb
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- lib/rbtagger.rb
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- lib/rbtagger/version.rb
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- lib/word/tagger.rb
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- lib/brill/brown/CONTEXTUALRULEFILE
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- lib/brill/brown/LEXICALRULEFILE
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- lib/brill/brown/LEXICON
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- script/console
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- script/destroy
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- script/generate
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- script/txt2html
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- setup.rb
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- tasks/deployment.rake
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- tasks/environment.rake
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- tasks/extconf.rake
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- tasks/extconf/rule_tagger.rake
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- tasks/extconf/word_tagger.rake
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- tasks/website.rake
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- test/docs/doc0.txt
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- test/docs/doc1.txt
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- test/docs/doc2.txt
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- test/docs/doc3.txt
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- test/docs/doc4.txt
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- test/docs/doc5.txt
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- test/docs/doc6.txt
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- test/docs/doc7.txt
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- test/docs/doc8.txt
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- test/docs/doc9.txt
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- test/fixtures/tags.txt
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- test/test_helper.rb
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- test/test_rule_tagger.rb
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- test/test_word_tagger.rb
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- tools/rakehelp.rb
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- website/index.html
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- website/index.txt
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- website/javascripts/rounded_corners_lite.inc.js
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- website/stylesheets/screen.css
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- website/template.html.erb
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- For more information on rbtagger, see http://rbtagger.rubyforge.org
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- = rbtagger
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- * http://github.com/taf2/rb-brill-tagger/tree/master
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-
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- == DESCRIPTION:
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- A Simple Ruby Rule-Based Part of Speech Tagger
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- This work is based on the work of Eric Brill
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- Credit for extracting Eric's work into a reusable library goes to Ken Williams as part of his work in creating the Lingua::BrillTagger perl module
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- This software is made available under the MIT License, see LICENSE
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-
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- == FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
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- * Rule based tagger
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- * Word matching tagger
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- == SYNOPSIS:
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- tagger = Brill::Tagger.new
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- == INSTALL:
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- * sudo gem install rbtagger
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-
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- == LICENSE:
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- (The MIT License)
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- Copyright (c) 2008 Todd A. Fisher
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- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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- a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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- 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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- distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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- permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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- the following conditions:
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- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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-
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- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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- CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
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- TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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- SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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- AUTHOR = 'Todd A. Fisher' # can also be an array of Authors
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- DESCRIPTION = "A Simple Ruby Rule-Based Part of Speech Tagger"
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- GEM_NAME = 'rbtagger' # what ppl will type to install your gem
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- RUBYFORGE_PROJECT = 'rbtagger' # The unix name for your project
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- Like baldness, height and eye color, the capacity to become
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- allergic is an inherited characteristic. Yet, although you may
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- be born with the genetic capability to become allergic, you
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- are not automatically allergic to specific allergens. Several
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- factors must be present for allergic sensitivity to be
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- developed:
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- * The specific genes acquired from parents.
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- * The exposure to one or more allergens to which you
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- * have a genetically programmed response.
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- * The degree and length of exposure.
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- A baby born with the tendency to become allergic
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- to cow's milk, for example, may show allergic
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- symptoms several months after birth. A genetic
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- capability to become allergic to cat dander may
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- take three to four years of cat exposure before
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- the person shows symptoms. These people may also
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- become allergic to other environmental substances
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- with age.
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- On the other hand, poison ivy allergy (contact
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- dermatitis) is an example of an allergy in which
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- hereditary background does not play a part. The
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- person with poison ivy allergy first has to be
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- exposed to the oil from the plant. This usually
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- occurs during youth, when a rash does not always
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- appear. However, the first exposure may sensitize
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- subsequent exposure takes place, a contact
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- dermatitis rash appears and can be quite severe.
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- Many plants are capable of producing this type of
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- rash. Substances other than plants, such as dyes,
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- metals, and chemicals in deodorants and cosmetics,
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- can also cause a similar dermatitis.