The textproc/cabocha package has been failing on i386 DragonFly for
months. This was caused by segaults in two utilities provided by yamcha:
pkemine and mktrie.
Google brought up some pastebin sniplets indicating others had run into
the same issue, confirming the fixes. With the revised yamcha utilities,
textproc/cabocha builds nicely on DragonFly.
YamCha is a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker oriented toward
a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition, base NP
chunking, and Text Chunking. YamCha is using a state-of-the-art machine learning
algorithm called Support Vector Machines (SVMs), first introduced by Vapnik in
1995.
YamCha is exactly the same system which performed the best in the CoNLL2000
Shared Task, Chunking and BaseNP Chunking task.
