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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: RFH: link-grammar -- Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English
- From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:20:00 -0600
- Message-id: <20091113032000.24382.34562.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I either need help with this package to have a DD who can sponsor
uploads on a regular basis or I'll be forced to put link-grammar up
for adoption, becuase lacking a sponsor I haven't gotten a new version
into the archive in ages. (Despite the fact that I've been keeping it
fairly up to date on git.debian.org.)
The package is maintained in git at
git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/link-grammar.git (browsable at
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/link-grammar.git)
The package description is:
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.
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link-grammar can be used for linguistic parsing for information
retrieval or extraction from natural language documents. It can also be
used as a grammar checker.
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