2. The method of claim 1 , wherein flagging the chunk inconsistencies comprises an automated comparison of the chunking applied to similar sets of characters from the one or more corpora.
1. A method, implemented by a computing device, comprising: providing a draft chunking specification; chunking one or more corpora, with a processor, in accordance with the draft chunking specification; flagging chunk inconsistencies in the chunking of similar portions of the one or more corpora, in which two or more identical or similar sections of text from different parts of the one or more corpora have been chunked differently from each other; providing a chunking utility comprising chunking assignments revised from the draft chunking specification such that at least some of the flagged chunk inconsistencies are resolved, such that for at least some of the chunk inconsistencies, the two or more identical or similar sections of text that had been chunked differently from each other are instead assigned a consistent chunking indication; wherein providing the chunking utility comprises automatically calculating with a processor a consistency ratio for the chunking of the corpora; and further comprising comparing the calculated consistency ratio with a chunk consistency threshold, and resolving the chunk inconsistencies at least until the calculated consistency ratio meets the chunk consistency threshold.