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 IOBBER -- a chunker for Slavic languages based on CRF++ and WCCL.
 2012, Adam Radziszewski, Wrocław University of Technology
 
+This is free software. See LICENCE for details.
+
 The chunker reads input file(s) and adds chunk annotation. By default, the
 input and output format is assumed to be CCL. This may be altered by using -i
 and -o options. The following formats are supported: