This is a tool for normalizing numerical/temporal expression.

ux(More Succinct Trie Data structure):http://code.google.com/p/ux-trie/wiki/Tutorial_Japanese

pficommon(General purpose C++ library for PFI):https://github.com/pfi/pficommon

Do following instructions.

$ ./waf configure

$ ./waf build

$ ./waf install

To check that the installation has completed successfully,

$ ./waf --checkall

This utility normalize (Japanese) numerical and temporal expressions in the input sentence.

$ normalizeNumexp

魔女狩りは15世紀〜18世紀にかけてみられ、全ヨーロッパで4万人が処刑された

>numerical*4万人*29*32*人*40000*40000*

>abstime*15世紀〜18世紀*5*14*none*1401-XX-XX*1800-XX-XX*

If you want to know more detail about this tool, please read following documents. http://www.cl.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~katsuma/software/normalizeNumexp/