YamCha is a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker 
oriented toward a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, 
Named Entity Recognition, base NP chunking, and Text Chunking. 
YamCha is using a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm 
called Support Vector Machines (SVMs), first introduced by 
Vapnik in 1995.

WWW:	http://chasen.org/~taku/software/yamcha/