2. Acknowledgements

2.1 Project background

The TIGERSearch software suite has been developed in the context of the following projects:

DEREKO project funded by the Land Baden-Württemberg

TIGER project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Esther König's post-doc research

Wolfgang Lezius' PhD and post-doc research

Holger Voormann's diploma thesis and PhD research

2.2 Third party software

The following software is part of the TIGERSearch distribution:

Software Organization URL
batik.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache XML Project http://xml.apache.org/batik/
fop.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache XML Project http://xml.apache.org/fop/
jakarta-oro.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache Jakarta Project http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/
jh.jar Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/
jdom.jar JDOM Project http://www.jdom.org
log4j.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache Jakarta Project http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/
poi.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache Jakarta Project http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
xalan.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache XML Project http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
xercesImpl.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache XML Project http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/
xml-apis.jar Apache Software Foundation, Apache XML Project http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/
Java Runtime Environments Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://java.sun.com/j2se/

The following software has been used to generate parts of the functionality of TIGERSearch:

Software Organization URL
JavaCC Sun Microsystems Laboratories http://www.experimentalstuff.com

The following software has been used to develop the TIGERSearch software:

Software Organization URL
Ant Apache Software Foundation http://ant.apache.org
Eclipse The Eclipse Consortium http://www.eclipse.org

2.3 Third party copyright statements

"This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation ( http://www.apache.org/)."

"This product includes software developed by the JDOM Project ( http://www.jdom.org/)."

"This product includes code licensed from RSA Security, Inc." (JRE)

"Some portions licensed from IBM are available at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/" (JRE)

2.4 Trademarks

Adobe is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.

Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

InstallAnywhere is a registered trademark of Zero G Software, Inc.

Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

PowerPoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Solaris and Java are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

StuffIt Expander is a registered trademark of Aladdin Systems, Inc.

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

All other marks are properties of their respective owners.

2.5 Third party corpus samplers

A range of institutions have kindly agreed that excerpts from their text corpora may be distributed with TIGERSearch. The current version of TIGERSearch includes the following corpus samplers (in alphabetic order):

Chinese

Chinese Treebank sampler

105 corpus graphs, University of Pennsylvania, distributed by LDC

English

Penn Treebank: Brown Corpus and Switchboard Corpus samplers

200 sentences each, University of Pennsylvania, distributed by LDC

Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2 Corpus) sampler

200 sentences, University of Pennsylvania / PPCME2 Project

Susanne and Christine Corpus samplers

200 sentences each, Sussex University / Susanne and Christine projects

VerbMobil Corpus sampler

250 sentences, see German VerbMobil sampler

German

DEREKO Corpus sampler

250 sentences, SfS, University of Tübingen and IMS, University of Stuttgart / DEREKO project

IMS chunking and parsing tools

The tools LoPar, TreeTagger, and YAC processed the same technical text (about 250 sentences). IMS, University of Stuttgart

Negra Corpus sampler

250 sentences, Department of Computational Linguistics, Universität des Saarlandes / Negra project

TIGER Corpus sampler

200 sentences, Institut für Germanistik, University of Potsdam / Department of Computational Linguistics, Universität des Saarlandes / IMS, University of Stuttgart / TIGER project

VerbMobil Corpus sampler

250 sentences, SfS, University of Tübingen / VerbMobil Project, distributed by IPSK, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München

Japanese

VerbMobil Corpus sampler

250 sentences, see German VerbMobil sampler

Korean

Korean Treebank sampler

125 corpus graphs, University of Pennsylvania, distributed by LDC