man link-grammar (Commandes) - parses natural language sentences
NAME
link-grammar - parses natural language sentences
SYNOPSIS
link-grammar [dict-file][-pppp_knowledge_file][-cconstituent_knowledge_file] [-a affix_file] [-ppoff] [-coff] [-aoff] [-batch] [-<special "!" command>]
DESCRIPTION
In Selator, D. and Temperly, D. "Parsing English with a Link Grammar" (1991), the authors defined a new formal grammatical system called a "link grammar". A sequence of words is in the language of a link grammar if there is a way to draw "links" between words in such a way that the local requirements of each word are satisfied, the links do not cross, and the words form a connected graph. The authors encoded English grammar into such a system, and wrote link-grammar to parse English using this grammar.
This package can be used for linguistic parsing for information retrieval or extraction from natural language documents. Abiword also uses it as a grammar checker.
OPTIONS
- -pp pp_knowledge_file
- -c constituent_knowledge_file
- -a affix_file
- -ppoff
- -coff
- -aoff
- -batch
- -<special ! command>
AUTHOR
link-grammar was written by Daniel Sleator <sleator@cs.cmu.edu>, Davy Temperley <dtemp@theory.esm.rochester.edu>, and John Lafferty <lafferty@cs.cmu.edu>
This manual page was written by Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).