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Link Grammar - Syntactic parser for the English language

The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. The system assigns to a sentence a syntactic structure, which consists of a set of labeled links connecting pairs of words. The parser also produces a "constituent" representation of a sentence (showing noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.).

The parser has a dictionary of about 60000 word forms. It covers a range of syntactic constructions, including many rare and idiomatic ones. The parser skips over the portions of the sentence that it cannot understand, and assigns some structure to the rest of the sentence. It can handle unknown vocabulary, and makes intelligent guesses from context and spelling about the syntactic categories of unknown words. It understands capitalization, numerical expressions, and various punctuation symbols.

Obtaining

Web page http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/index.html
Source tarball http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ftp-site/link-grammar/link-4.1a
Source information http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ftp.html
Version 4.1a (stable) released on 2004-02-02

Licensed under Link Grammar License (http://w.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

See http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/dict/index.html for a complete list of documentation

Support contacts

Project contacts

Maintainers	Daniel Sleator <sleator@cs.cmu.edu>
Developers	John Lafferty <lafferty@cs.cmu.edu> Daniel Sleator <sleator@cs.cmu.edu> Davy Temperley <dtemp@theory.esm.rochester.edu>
Sponsors	National Science Foundation (USA) DARPA (USA) School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-02-24
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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