ACE

The ACE function extracts information from a set of documents following the ACE guidelines, including entities, values, relations, and events.  It is invoked by

ace propertyFile fileList docDirectory outDirectory [parseDir [glarfDir [glarfSuffix [parseSuffix]]]]

where
propertyFile
Jet properties file
filelist
a list of the files to be processed
docDirectory
the path of the directory containing the input files
outDirectory
the path of the directory in which APF files are to be written
parseDir
the path of the directory containing Penn TreeBank-style parse trees for the input files
glarfDir
the path of the directory containing GLARF tuples
glarfSuffix
the file suffix for GLARF files (default is ".sent.txt.ns-2005-fast-ace-n-tuple92")
parseSuffix
the file suffix for parse files (default is ".sgm.sent.chout")
ACE operation is controlled by a number of parameters in the Jet property file:

Jet parameter
significance
Ace.EDTtype.fileName
file name of a dictionary of heads of entities, giving the type and subtype of the entity
Ace.generic.fileName
file name of a dictionary used for identifying generic entities
Ace.Year
either 2003, 2004, or 2005:  controls format of APF files and other year-specific features
Ace.Value.fileName
file name of a dictionary of heads of value phrases;  if omitted, values are not extracted
Time.fileName
file name of a set of time expression rules;  if omitted, time expressions are not extracted
Ace.RelationPatterns.fileName
file name of a set of relation patterns;  if omitted, relations are not extracted
Ace.EventModels.directory
name of the directory containing files with models for the various event classifiers
(argument, argument role, event, event coreference)
Ace.PerfectEntities
if any non-null value is assigned, generate entities matching those in an APF file (corresponding to each document file) which should be placed in docDirectory and have file extension .apf.xml