CRF Mallet model file

Question

What is model-file when we train CRF Mallet? java -cp "/home/hough/mallet/class:/home/hough/mallet/lib/mallet-deps.jar" cc.mallet.fst.SimpleTagger --train true --model-file nouncrf sample

Answer 1

Are you asking where to get it (1) or what's format it's in (2) ?

Answers are:

1. According to documentation --model-file option specifies where file will be written to. So MALLET creates it.
2. It's Java object serialized to binary using standard Java serialization.