Confopy 0.4.4

Evaluates the linguistic and structural quality of scientific texts.

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 (preferred)
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sudo pip install -U Confopy

Launch Confopy with

confopy --help
confopy -r document your_paper.pdf

Manual installation
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Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-pdfminer

sudo pip install -U lxml
sudo pip install numpy==1.6.2
sudo pip install pyyaml nltk==3.0.0
sudo pip install pyenchant==1.6.5
sudo pip install pattern==2.6

Launch Confopy with

python confopy/ --help
python confopy/ -r document your_paper.pdf


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

For German (TIGER treebank):

Automated download:

1. Go to
<your python package directory>/confopy/localization/de/corpus\_de/
2. Execute the script
tiger_dl_patch.py
within that folder

Manual download:

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!