Contents

• Introduction
  • What is FreeLing
  • What is NOT FreeLing
  • Supported Languages
  • License
  • Contributions
  
  
• Getting it to work
  • Requirements
  • Installation
    • Install from .deb binary packages
    • Install from .tar.gz source packages
    • Install from SVN repositories
    • Locale-related problems when installing
    • Installing on MacOS
  • Executing
  • Porting to other platforms
  
  
• Analysis Modules
  • Language Identifier Module
    • Language Identifier Options File
  • Tokenizer Module
    • Tokenizer Rules File
  • Splitter Module
    • Splitter Options File
  • Morphological Analyzer Module
  • Number Detection Module
  • Punctuation Detection Module
    • Punctuation Tags File
  • User Map Module
    • User Map File
  • Dates Detection Module
  • Dictionary Search Module
    • Form Dictionary File
    • Affixation Rules File
    • Dictionary Management
  • Multiword Recognition Module
    • Multiword Definition File
  • Named Entity Recognition Module
    • Basic NER module (np)
    • BIO NER module (bioner)
  • Quantity Recognition Module
    • Quantity Recognition Data File
  • Probability Assignment and Unkown Word Guesser Module
    • Lexical Probabilities File
  • Alternatives Suggestion Module
  • Sense Labelling Module
  • Word Sense Disambiguation Module
  • Part-of-Speech Tagger Module
    • HMM-Tagger Parameter File
    • Relaxation-Labelling Constraint Grammar File
  • Phonetic Encoding Module
  • Named Entity Classification Module
    • NEC Data File
  • Chart Parser Module
    • Shallow Parser CFG file
  • Dependency Parser Module
    • Dependency Parsing Rule File
  • Coreference Resolution Module
    • Coreference Solver configuration file
  
  
• Other useful modules
  • Tag Set Managing Module
    • Tagset Description File
  • Semantic Database Module
    • PoS mapping rules
    • Sense Dictionary File
    • WordNet file
  • Approximate search dictionary
  • Feature Extraction Module
    • Feature Extraction Rule File
    • Rule Syntax
    • Feature Name Pattern Syntax
    • Feature Rules Condition Syntax
    • Adding custom feature functions
  
  
• Using the library from your own application
  • Basic Classes
    • Linguistic Data Classes
    • Processing modules
  • Sample programs
  
  
• Using the sample main program to process corpora
  • The easy way: Using the analyze script
    • Stand-alone mode
    • Client/server mode
  • Using a threaded analyzer
  • Usage example
  • Configuration File and Command Line Options
    • Valid options
    • Sample Configuration File
  
  
• Extending the library with analyzers for new languages
  • Tokenizer
  • Morphological analyzer
    • Multiword detection
    • Nummerical expression detection
    • Date/time expression detection
    • Currency/ratio expression detection
    • Dictionary search
    • Affixed forms search
    • Probability assignment
  • HMM PoS Tagger
  • Relaxation Labelling PoS Tagger
  • Named Entity Recognizer and Classifier
  • Chart Parser
  • Dependency Parser
  
  
• Bibliography