en-fdg

Connexor Machinese Syntax for English

Description

en-fdg analyzes English text according to a functional depencency grammar. The output is either in text format or a proprietary XML format. The Connexor parsers are available on Hippu 1 and accessible to Language Bank users (members of the group kieli).

Version and Copyright Information

version: Connexor FDG 3.9

copyright:

Machinese Syntax
Connexor FDG3 3.9 for English                www.connexor.com
(c) Connexor oy, 1997-2006               support@connexor.com

Usage

input:

[hippu1.csc.fi]> echo "This is a test." | en-fdg

output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE analysis SYSTEM "http://www.connexor.com/dtds/4.0/fdg3.dtd">
<analysis><sentence id="w1">
<token id="w2"> <text>This</text>       <lemma>this</lemma>     <depend head="w3">subj:</depend>        <tags><syntax>@SUBJ %NH</syntax> <morpho>PRON DEM SG</morpho></tags></token>
<token id="w3"> <text>is</text> <lemma>be</lemma>       <depend head="w1">main:</depend>        <tags><syntax>@+FMAINV %VA</syntax> <morpho>V PRES SG3</morpho></tags></token>
<token id="w4"> <text>a</text>  <lemma>a</lemma>        <depend head="w5">det:</depend> <tags><syntax>@DN&gt; %&gt;N</syntax> <morpho>DET SG</morpho></tags></token>
<token id="w5"> <text>test</text>       <lemma>test</lemma>     <depend head="w3">comp:</depend>        <tags><syntax>@PCOMPL-S %NH</syntax> <morpho>N NOM SG</morpho></tags></token>
<token id="w6"> <text>.</text>  <lemma>.</lemma></token>
</sentence>
</analysis>

Help, Manuals and Documentation

en-fdg is included in the module kieli which is loaded as a default for all language research users. The module can be loaded manually with the command module load kieli.

help commands:
fi-fdg --help

further information:

usage: fi-fdg [-flags] files
 -h             -- print this page
 -v             -- print version
 -k --keep-sgml -- let markup codes and comments pass through the parser
 --xml          -- print output as XML (only in FDG; default)
 --text         -- print output as text
 --dtd          -- print XML output with the DTD (only in FDG)
 --tagset       -- output starts with the tag descriptions (in XML; only in FDG)
 --tagset-dtd   -- with the DTD for the tag descriptions (only in FDG)
 --custom=file  -- apply a custom lexicon
 --port=number  -- start the server mode and listen to the given port
 --message      -- each message is analysed separately