An implementation of the Ramshaw and Marcus BaseNP chunker, which marks noun phrases with a NounChunk annotation. This application also includes a tokeniser, sentence splitter and POS tagger as these are required by the chunking algorithm.

Default annotations
:NounChunk Noun chunks discovered by the chunker
Additional annotations available if selected
:Token The individual tokens of the text, with "category" feature for POS
:SpaceToken The spaces between tokens
:Sentence Sentences detected by the sentence splitter