How to use the pretrained MaltParser parsing models for english

Question

I am trying to use the pretrained parsing model for English of the MaltParser by following the steps in the following page, but repeatedly getting a null pointer exception. http://maltparser.org/mco/english_parser/engmalt.html

I am trying this on a MaltParser version 1.4 and Java version 6 on a Windows machine. I think the model was trained on a Linux machine as some directory info in the model suggests so. I am not sure if that is causing a issue. I searched the net for help but did not find anything specific to this.

Kindly help me to solve this issue. Thanking you in advance.

Answer 1

You can try to use version 1.4.1.

From the version 1.4.1 release note:

Fixed a problem introduced in 1.4 with path separator in Microsoft Windows environment