A chunker detects syntactical groups in a token stream. This processor has no interest in itself, and is mostly used as a preprocessing for advanced syntactical processing.
This processor has a high impact on performance.
It creates output annotations:
gadv – for adverbial group
gadv
gadj – for adjectival group
gadj
gnoun – for noun group
gnoun
gverb – for verbal group
gverb
gprep – for prepositional group
gprep