To train a model: 1. Create a .props file describing the source data and model algorithm 2. Give .props file a reference ID (e.g. twitter_irc-ptb.1.props) 3. Run this: java -classpath stanford-postagger.jar edu.stanford.nlp.tagger.maxent.MaxentTagger -prop PROPS_FILE_FROM_STEP_2 4. add props and model to svn To evaluate a model: 1. java -classpath stanford-postagger.jar edu.stanford.nlp.tagger.maxent.MaxentTagger -testFile corpora/stanford-twitter-dev.txt -model models/MODEL_FILENAME 2. record in results.ods incl. props file reference