此软件是开源软件，主要用于中文信息处理，信息检索。本人主要用于网络获取双语语料库。此软件用perl编写，模块独立性强，在获得收集一些种子网址后，即可用于双语网络获取。-The perl scr ipts included in the BootCaT toolkit implement an

iterative procedure to bootstrap specialized corpora and terms from

the web, requiring only a list of ``seeds　 (terms that are expected

to be typical of the domain of interest) as input.



In implementing the algorithm, we followed the old UNIX adage that

each program should do only one thing, but do it well. Thus, we

developed a small, independent tool for each separate subtask of the

algorithm.



As a result, BootCaT is extremely modular: One can easily run a subset

of the programs, look at intermediate output files, add new tools to

the suite, or change one program without having to worry about the

others.