Ken Bloom wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name : link-grammar > Version : 4.1b > Upstream Author : Daniel Sleator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Davy Temperley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/index.html > * License : BSD > Description : Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for > English > > 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 this program 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. > > *** end description *** > > I am not a DD, and I will need a sponsor to upload this package. > I am a graduate student in the Lingusitic Cognition Laboratory in the > Computer Science Department at Illinois Institute of Technology, and > as such this package is useful to me. If anyone who sees this is > interested in sponsoring my uploads, please email me. > > --Ken Bloom
Packages for i386 and amd64 and sources are now available at http://lingcog.iit.edu/~bloom/link-grammar/ --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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