CRFsuite
                              Version 0.12
                 http://www.chokkan.org/software/crfsuite/



* INTRODUCTION
CRFSuite is an implementation of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for
labeling sequential data. Please refer to the web site for more
information about this software.



* COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING INFORMATION

This program is distributed under the modified BSD license. Refer to
COPYING file for the precise description of the license.


Portions of this software are based on libLBFGS.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 1990 Jorge Nocedal
Copyright (c) 2007 Naoaki Okazaki

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Portions of this software are based on Constant Quark Database (CQDB).

The BSD license.

Copyright (c) 2007, Naoaki Okazaki
All rights reserved.

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Portions of this software are based on RumAVL.

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Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Jesse Long <[email protected]>
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Portions of this software are based on a portable stdint.h (for MSVC).

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Paul Hsieh

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Portions of this software are based on Mersenne Twister.

Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
All rights reserved.                          

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     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

  3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote 
     products derived from this software without specific prior written 
     permission.

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"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
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PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
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NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
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* SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO...
Olivier Grisel
Andreas Holzbach
Baoli Li
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Hiroshi Manabe
Riza Theresa B. Batista-Navarro