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YamCha is a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker oriented toward
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a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition, base NP
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chunking, and Text Chunking. YamCha is using a state-of-the-art machine learning
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algorithm called Support Vector Machines (SVMs), first introduced by Vapnik in
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1995.
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YamCha is exactly the same system which performed the best in the CoNLL2000
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Shared Task, Chunking and BaseNP Chunking task.
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