libleipzig 1.1

wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de binding

libleipzig-python provides a wrapper to the web services provided by the Deutscher Wortschatz project of the University of Leipzig. Deutscher Wortschatz is a German database of text corpora and can be utilized to analyze and contextualize words in the thesaurus. libleipzig currently supports all public service calls. These do not require authentication and are provided free of charge for private or scientific purposes.

Example

>>> from libleipzig import *
>>> r = Baseform(u"Schlangen")
>>> r
[(Grundform: u'Schlange', Wortart: u'N'),
 (Grundform: u'Schlangen', Wortart: u'S')]
>>> r[0].Grundform
u'Schlange'
>>> help(Baseform)
Help on function Baseform in module libleipzig.protocol:
Baseform(*vectors)
    Baseform(Wort) -> Grundform, Wortart
        Return the lemmatized (base) form.
>>>