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