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Why we included this project

MeTA is a C++ library that gathers the pieces of a text analysis and search pipeline into one place, so you are not stitching together half a dozen separate tools. It covers tokenization (including parse-tree features), compressed inverted and forward indexes with ranking functions, topic models, classifiers, language models, and a CRF implementation for POS tagging and shallow parsing. The liblinear and libsvm wrappers plus UTF-8 support make it easy to slot into existing research or production code. Because it is a library you compile against, it suits developers comfortable building native C++ rather than teams looking for a ready-to-run service. Doxygen docs and tutorials are included, and there is an ACL demo paper to cite if you use it in research.