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Evaluates the linguistic and structural quality of scientific texts.

Project description

Confopy
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Asserting the linguistic and structural quality of scientific texts.
Written in Python.

Name origin: Confopy := Conform + Python


Installation
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Installation using pypi
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sudo pip install -U Confopy

Launch Confopy with

confopy

Manual installation
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Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-pdfminer

sudo pip install -U lxml
sudo pip install -U numpy
sudo pip install -U pyyaml nltk
sudo pip install -U pyenchant
sudo pip install -U pattern

Launch Confopy with

python confopy/

Issues with NLTK
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If you get the following error while launching confopy:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/confopy", line 21, in <module>
from confopy.pdfextract import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confopy/pdfextract/__init__.py",
line 6, in <module>
from confopy.pdfextract.convenience import PDF2XMLstring,
PDF2pages, PDF2document, PDFs2documents
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confopy/pdfextract/convenience.py",
line 13, in <module>
from confopy.pdfextract.heuristics import HeuristicManager
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confopy/pdfextract/heuristics.py",
line 12, in <module>
from confopy.model.document import Node, Document, Section,
Paragraph, Float, Footnote
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confopy/model/__init__.py",
line 3, in <module>
from confopy.model.document import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confopy/model/document.py",
line 9, in <module>
from nltk import word_tokenize
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/__init__.py", line
40, in <module>
__doc__ += '\n@version: ' + __version__
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'NoneType' and 'str'

Comment line 40 in the file:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/__init__.py


Getting a corpus
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Confopy needs a corpus (collection of language data) to run.

For German (TIGER treebank):

1. Go to:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/korpora/TIGERCorpus/license/htmlicense.html
2. Accept the license and download TIGER-XML Release 2.2:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/korpora/TIGERCorpus/download/tigercorpus-2.2.xml.tar.gz
3. Unpack the archive into confopy/localization/de/corpus\_de/
4. Run the patch tiger\_release\_aug07.corrected.16012013\_patch.py in the same folder
5. Verify that the generated file is named exactly like in confopy/config.py


Python 3
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* The package python-pdfminer only works with python 2.4 or newer, but not with python 3


Unicode errors
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* Configure terminal to use unicode!
* For Python devs:
http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html#the-unicode-type
* Convert the TIGER Treebank file
"tiger_release_aug07.corrected.16012013.xml"
to utf-8 encoding before using Confopy!

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