How To Install mbt on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mbt on Debian 10.
What is mbt
mbt is:
MBT is a memory-based tagger-generator and tagger in one. The tagger-generator part can generate a sequence tagger on the basis of a training set of tagged sequences; the tagger part can tag new sequences. MBT can, for instance, be used to generate part-of-speech taggers or chunkers for natural language processing. Features:
- Tagger generation: tagged text in, tagger out,
- Optional feedback loop: feed previous tag decision back to input of next decision,
- Easily customizable feature representation; can incorporate user-provided features,
- Automatic generation of separate sub-taggers for known words and unknown words,
- Can make use of full algorithmic parameters of TiMBL.
MBT is a product of the Centre of Language and Speech Technology (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and the CLiPS Research Centre (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
If you do scientific research in natural language processing, MBT will likely be of use to you.
There are three methods to install mbt on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mbt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mbt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mbt
Install mbt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mbt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mbt
Install mbt Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mbt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mbt
How To Uninstall mbt on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mbt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mbt
Uninstall mbt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mbt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbt
Remove mbt Configurations and Data
To remove mbt configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mbt
Remove mbt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mbt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbt
Dependencies
mbt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mbt package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.