paralex 2.2.8

Standard for lexicons of inflected paradigms

Paralex: lexicons of morphological paradigms

Paralex is a standard for morphological lexicons which document inflectional paradigms.

This package contains:

• The paralex specification
• The full documentation
• Utilities to generate metadata and to validate paralex lexicons

Generating metadata

To generate paralex metadata (more in the docs):

from paralex import paralex_factory

package = paralex_factory("Vulcan Verbal Paradigms",
                          {
                              "forms": {"path": "vulcan_v_forms.csv"},
                          }
                          )
package.to_json("vulcan.package.json")

The package returned is a frictionless Package object and can be manipulated as such as needed.

Validation of paralex datasets

To validate a paralex lexicon:

    paralex validate <mypackagename>.package.json

This checks that the data is valid using frictionless, as well as a number of statements to match the paralex standard. For a detailed report on frictionless metadata, do:

    frictionless validate <mypackagename>.package.json

Accessing datasets

Available datasets in the Zenodo community:

    paralex list

Download a dataset and extract the .zip archive:

    paralex get <ZENODO_ID>

The Zenodo ID can be found with the paralex list command.

Serving the paralex site

First, build the standard package from files:

	paralex make_standard

Second, build the specs files from the standard package:

	paralex make_doc

Third, use mkdocs (which needs to be installed) to build this site:

	mkdocs serve