Help with Openregex constructs

[p6jain]

1. Can we use ? construct as reluctant quantifier (as it is in normal java regular expressions) too?
2. Why does the following regular expression doesn't pick "is found" from the specified string.
   I am assuming that <string='.'>* means zero or more string of any length.
   Regular expression:
   < string='but' > < string='now' > < string='.' > * ( < pos='VB.?' > * )
   Sentence:
   He was lost , but now he is found.

[schmmd]

1. No
2. I don't think string='.*' is applying .* as a Java regular expression.

If you are applying OpenRegex to chunked sentence text, you might want to take a look a https://github.com/knowitall/taggers

[schmmd]

Sorry, I just corrected that link for you: https://github.com/knowitall/taggers