The nlpFarm is a resource from NLPLAB that hosts facility software for natural language processing in Java with focus on conversational systems. The facility software is packaged in layers for maximal flexibility: components (configurable black-box units of deployment), tools (off-line tools for efficient development), framelets (small object-oriented frameworks) and libraries. The units are available both in the FarmSuite bundle that contains all projects, and as stand-alone archives.

For related student projects, see also the NLPLAB Greenhouse.

Suite	Description	Version	Exec	Source
FarmSuite	Suite of all nlpFarm projects	svn	-	-
Components
LINPAC	Generic conversational client	svn	-	-
MOLINC	Modular phase-based language interface processing	0.8.0	exec	src
Tools
LINTest	LINTest is a dialog system corpus test module	1.0.0	exec	src
Framelets
JavaChart	JavaChart is a chart parser written in Java	0.4.2	exec	src
Self	Semantic linguistic analysis framelet	svn	-	-
Gentle	Taxonomic Template Generation Framelet	svn	-	-
PCQL	Preference-based Conversational Query Language	1.0.0	exec	src
Only	Ontology formalism tailored for dialogue systems	0.7.1	exec	src
QUAC	For query access to information sources	0.8.1	exec	src
FOX	Framelet for dialogue focus managent	svn	-	-
Libraries
FarmLib	The FarmLib contains classes of basic character	0.8.1	exec	src
			Wiki Documentation
			Old releases
			FarmSuite API

Note for Unix: The tar files are made with the GNU tar command. On Unix use GNU tar to extract the files if possible. In particular, the default Sun Solaris tar-command may not be able to extract files in a correct way.

The layering between the projects is non-strict. Components, for example, can access libraries directly and projects in the same layer are allowed to depend on each other one-way.

Downloads other than the FarmSuite download include the jar archives needed from other farm projects, in order to make download simple. However, this lead to some redundancy when several projects are downloaded, for which we apologize.