pyfcg 0.1b5

A Python port of Fluid Construction Grammar

PyFCG

A Python interface to FCG and Babel, built on FCG Go.

Installation

To install this package from PyPI, run the following command.

$ pip install pyfcg

Use

Start a PyFCG session with:

import pyfcg as fcg
fcg.init()

Walkthrough examples

Walkthrough example showcasing how PyFCG can be integrated in typical use cases of FCG are provided in the form of interactive notebooks:

• Construction grammar formalisation and testing
• Learning construction grammars from corpora
• Agent-based models of emergent communication

Documentation

The tecnical documentation of PyFCG is available at Read the Docs.

How to cite

Van Eecke, P., & Beuls, K. (2025). PyFCG: Fluid Construction Grammar in Python. arXiv preprint.

@article{vaneecke2025pyfcg,
	author = {Paul {Van Eecke} and Katrien Beuls},
	title = {PyFCG: Fluid Construction Grammar in Python.},
	year = {2025},
	journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:},}