How To Install mbt on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbt on Kali Linux. mbt is memory-based tagger-generator and tagger

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbt on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbt

Remove mbt Configurations and Data

To remove mbt configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.