NLP Instantiation Help!

[mark meiklejohn]

Hi,

I'm coming from 1.3.1 to 1.5.1, now I can get 1.5.1 up and running fine 
with the examples. However, there are some features missing and I'm 
wondering how I can go about incorporating/instantiating them. 
Typically, I used the TreebankParser as it gives me nice structure to 
traverse, but that seems to have gone AWOL or has been replaced by the 
POSModels.

First off I'm looking to use the 'tagdict' that was with 1.3.1 & case 
insensitive mode. The reason being is that I have no control over the 
input that I will be processing.

So it could be entirely possible that information I receive could be all 
in capitals i.e. "I NEED OPENNLP TO BE ABLE TO PROCESS IN CASE 
INSENSITIVE MODE" now in this case 1.5.1 typically returns the majority 
of these as NNPs as would 1.3.1, which is no good, but since 1.3.1 would 
process in case insensitive it give me a better parse structure for it.

Now I can't just reduce everything to lower case as it comes through as 
this may have knock-on effects. So is there away to achieve what I want 
to achieve??

If someone knows how to go about instantiating what I'm looking for an 
example would be greatly appreciated

TIA

Mark