This module is a Ruby binding for the link-grammar library, a syntactic parser of English.
Authors
- Michael Granger
- Martin Chase
Requirements
- Ruby 1.8.6
- link-grammar (version 4.5.7 or later) from the AbiWord project (www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/)
Example Usage
require 'linkparser' dict = LinkParser::Dictionary.new( :screen_width => 100 ) sent = dict.parse( "People use Ruby for all kinds of nifty things." ) # => #<LinkParser::Sentence:0xcf8eb "LEFT-WALL people use Ruby for all kinds # of nifty things . RIGHT-WALL"/2 linkages/0 nulls> sent.subject # => "people" sent.verb # => "use" sent.object # => "Ruby" puts sent.constituent_tree_string # => # (S (NP People) # (VP use # (NP Ruby) # (PP for # (NP (NP all kinds) # (PP of # (NP nifty things))))) # .) puts sent.diagram # => # +-------------------------------Xp------------------------------+ # | +----MVp---+----Jp----+ +------Jp-----+ | # +----Wd---+--Sp--+--Os-+ | +-Dmc-+--Mp-+ +----A---+ | # | | | | | | | | | | | # LEFT-WALL people.p use.v Ruby for.p all kinds.n of nifty.a things.n .
Legal
For licensing information, see the LICENSE file.
For copyright and licensing information for link-grammar itself, see the LICENSE file in that distribution.
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