timbl command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix timbl command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

timbl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: timbl: command not found

Solutions to timbl: command not found

How To Fix timbl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu timbl is provided by timbl package.

timbl is:

Memory-Based Learning (MBL) is a machine-learning method applicable to a wide range of tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

The Tilburg Memory Based Learner, TiMBL, is a tool for NLP research, and for many other domains where classification tasks are learned from examples. It is an efficient implementation of k-nearest neighbor classifier.

TiMBL’s features are:

  • Fast, decision-tree-based implementation of k-nearest neighbor classification;
  • Implementations of IB1 and IB2, IGTree, TRIBL, and TRIBL2 algorithms;
  • Similarity metrics: Overlap, MVDM, Jeffrey Divergence, Dot product, Cosine;
  • Feature weighting metrics: information gain, gain ratio, chi squared, shared variance;
  • Distance weighting metrics: inverse, inverse linear, exponential decay;
  • Extensive verbosity options to inspect nearest neighbor sets;
  • Server functionality and extensive API;
  • Fast leave-one-out testing and internal cross-validation;
  • and Handles user-defined example weighting.

TiMBL is a product of the Centre of Language and Speech Technology (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and the CLiPS Research Centre (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

If you do scientific research in NLP, timbl will likely be of use to you.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install timbl

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install timbl.

sudo apt -y install timbl

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install timbl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix timbl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.