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+# conllu2cmc
+
+Reads CoNLL-U format from stdin and annotates emojis, emoticons, hashtags, URLs, email addresses, action words, and @names with their corresponding STTS-IBK POS tag (Beißwenger/Bartsch/Evert/Würzner 2016). Writes CoNLL-U format to stdout.
+
+## Usage
+
+```shell
+korapxml2conllu kyc.zip | conllu2cmc
+```
+
+### Generate KorAP-XML zip with CMC annotations
+
+```shell
+korapxml2conllu kyc.zip | conllu2cmc -s | conllu2korapxml > kyc.cmc.zip
+```
+
+## Installation
+
+```shell
+npm install 'git+https://gitlab.ids-mannheim.de/KorAP/korap-conllu-cmc.git'
+```
+
+### Build from source
+
+```shell
+npm install
+```
+
+#### Build standalone
+
+```shell
+npm run pkg-linux
+```
+
+## References
+
+Beißwenger, Michael/Bartsch, Sabine/Evert, Stefan/Würzner, Kay-Michael (2016): EmpiriST 2015: A Shared Task on the Automatic Linguistic Annotation of Computer-Mediated Communication and Web Corpora. In: Proceedings of the 10th Web as Corpus Workshop. Berlin: Association for Computational Linguistics, S. 44–56. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W16-2606.