This distribution represents release 1.0 of OntoNotes, an annotated
corpus whose development is being supported under the GALE program of
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contract
No. HR0011-06-C-0022.

Top-level documentation of the release is in the file
  doc/ontonotes-1.0-documentation.pdf
with additional documentation files also found in the doc directory.

The data directory includes the files with the information for the
individual annotation layers (syntactic structure, propositional
structure, word sense, coreference, and names) for each of the
underlying corpus text files.  That information is also merged into a
relation database.

The source directory includes the package
  OntoNotes DB Tool v0.9 beta
which was used to assemble the database from the original annotation
files.  This tool can also derive various views of the data from the
database, and it provides an API that can implement new queries or
views.  Licensing information for the OntoNotes DB Tool package is
included in its source directory.