eee-project

Part of Ελληνικά Εκπαιδευτικά Εργαλεία (EEE) — Greek Language Educational Tools.

Same API for general Modern/Ancient Greek flavours, with the possibility of extending language coverage. Language codes follow ISO 639.

🔓 Open source:

• prod — https://github.com/EEE-project/eee-project
• prod mirror — https://gitlab.com/EEE-project/eee-project
• dev — https://codeberg.org/EEE-project/eee-project

💬 Community: https://telegram.me/eee_greek

Installation

pip install eee-project

# Install the backends you need:
pip install modern-greek-backend-eee
pip install unimorph-backend-eee
pip install ancient-greek-backend-eee

Development version (latest, from Codeberg) — for any of the above, replace with: pip install "<name> @ git+https://codeberg.org/EEE-project/<name>.git"

Requires Python 3.12+.

eee-project is a pure framework — no backends are bundled. Install the backend packages you need alongside it.

Development

make test                     # run all tests (quiet)
make test-v                   # run all tests (verbose)
make check                    # run ruff (curated rule set - see [tool.ruff.lint] in pyproject.toml)

Quick Start

Backends register themselves via entry points when installed, so inflect() finds them automatically:

import eee_project as eee

# Modern Greek (el) — requires modern-greek-backend-eee
eee.inflect("λύω",      {"Tense": "Pres", "Voice": "Act", "Person": "1", "Number": "Sing"}, "verb", language="el")  # → {"λύω"}
eee.inflect("γυναίκα", {"Gender": "Fem",  "Number": "Plur", "Case": "Gen"},                 "noun", language="el")  # → {"γυναικών"}

# Ancient Greek (grc) — requires ancient-greek-backend-eee
eee.inflect("λύω",  {"VerbForm": "Fin", "Tense": "Aor", "Voice": "Act", "Mood": "Ind", "Person": "1", "Number": "Sing"}, "verb", language="grc")  # → {"ἔλυσα"}
eee.inflect("θεός", {"Case": "Gen", "Number": "Sing", "Gender": "Masc"}, "noun", language="grc")  # → {"θεοῦ"}

language= is required unless backend names a single-language backend (e.g. backend="modern-greek" infers language="el").

Feature keys follow Universal Dependencies FEATS.

Named backends and chains

When multiple backends cover the same language, register them by name and configure a chain (e.g. try modern-greek first, fall back to unimorph). See docs/chains.md for the full chain API, stop="all" union mode, and hook extension points.

Greek diachronic coverage

Greek has a continuous documented history of ~3,500 years, with substantial morphological and phonological change across periods and dialects.

The major alphabetic dialects (Attic, Ionic, Doric, Aeolic) share the same morphological paradigms and differ mainly in phonology and orthography; Ancient Greek support here follows Classical Attic conventions.

from ancient_greek_backend_eee import AncientGreekBackend

# Query the same lemma under different historical periods
epic  = AncientGreekBackend.for_period("epic")               # Homer
attic = AncientGreekBackend.for_period("attic")               # Classical Attic
koine = AncientGreekBackend.for_period("hellenistic_koine", "roman_koine")  # Septuagint + NT

# Epic verse allows the unaugmented aorist alongside the standard form;
# Attic and Koine require the augment.
form = {"VerbForm": "Fin", "Tense": "Aor", "Voice": "Act", "Mood": "Ind", "Person": "1", "Number": "Sing"}
epic.inflect("λύω", form, "verb")   # {'λῦσα', 'ἔλυσα'}
attic.inflect("λύω", form, "verb")  # {'ἔλυσα'}
koine.inflect("λύω", form, "verb")  # {'ἔλυσα'}

See each backend's own README for exact lexicon-level coverage within each period.

Examples

13 runnable scripts and notebooks in examples/ — verbs/nouns/adjectives for el and grc, UniMorph, named backends, chains, hooks, and interactive Marimo viewers. See docs/examples.md for the full catalog and how to run each one.

API

Core functions: inflect() and inflect_traced() (shown in Quick Start above), list_lemmas()/list_lemmas_traced(), analyze()/analyze_traced() (reverse lookup), register_backend(), set_chain(), set_fallback_backend(), supported_languages(), language_info() — plus a slot-template system for building structured inflection tables, and three exception types (UnsupportedLanguageError, BackendLoadError, PosNotSupportedError) with chain-aware failure handling. Full signatures, the slot-template API, writing a new backend, and exception semantics: docs/api-reference.md.

Backends

unimorph-backend-eee adds a second, TSV-lookup rung for both Greek languages, plus several other languages (Latin, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and 187 more on demand) — see its own README for bundled coverage and how it compares to the dedicated backends above.

Each backend's own README is the canonical source for its lexicon flavors, period/dialect coverage, lemma counts, and known limitations — modern-greek-backend-eee, ancient-greek-backend-eee, unimorph-backend-eee.