djireland/linkparser

A high-level interface to the CMU Link Grammar. (Github mirror)

linkparser

• http://bitbucket.org/ged/linkparser

Description

This module is a Ruby binding for the Abiword version of CMU's Link Grammar, a syntactic parser of English.

Example Usage

dict = LinkParser::Dictionary.new
=> #<LinkParser::Dictionary:0x007fc56b480d18 @options={}>

sent = dict.parse( "People use Ruby for all kinds of nifty things." )
=> #<LinkParser::Sentence:0x1ff15b42eeda
      "LEFT-WALL people.p use.v Ruby.f for.p all.a kinds.n of nifty.a things.n . RIGHT-WALL"/
      15 linkages/0 nulls>

sent.subject
=> "people"

sent.verb
=> "use"

sent.object
=> "Ruby"

puts sent.diagram( max_width: 200 )

    +---------------------------------Xp--------------------------------+
    |                             +---------------Jp---------------+    |
    |                             |            +--------Dmc--------+    |
    +------>WV------>+-----MVp----+            |     +------Jd-----+    |
    +----Wd---+--Sp--+--Os--+     |     +-Dmcn-+-OFd-+    +----A---+    +--RW--+
    |         |      |      |     |     |      |     |    |        |    |      |
LEFT-WALL people.p use.v Ruby.f for.p all.a kinds.n of nifty.a things.n . RIGHT-WALL

Installation

First, download and install the latest version of the link-grammar library from Abiword's site.

Then install the gem:

gem install linkparser

You may need to specify the path to the link-grammar library if you installed it somewhere that your linker doesn't look by default:

gem install linkparser -- --with-link-grammar=/usr/local

Contributing

You can check out the current development source with Mercurial, or if you prefer Git, via its Github mirror.

After checking out the source, run:

$ rake newb

This task will install any missing dependencies, run the tests/specs, and generate the API documentation.

License

This gem uses the link-grammar library, which is licensed under the LGPL v2.1 license:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

The gem itself is licensed under the BSD license:

Copyright (c) 2006-2017, The FaerieMUD Consortium All rights reserved.

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