pylinkgrammar 0.1.9

Python bindings for Link Grammar system

Description
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LinkGrammar is a sentence parsing system developed at Carnegie Melon University by John Lafferty, Daniel Sleator, Davy Temperley and others

LinkGrammar is written in C. This package contains a Pythonic interface to the C library.

Install
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You'll need to build and install linkgrammar before running setup.py.

On Debian and ubuntu systems you:::
sudo apt-get install link-grammar

Then to install pylinkgrammar:::
pip install pylinkgrammar

How to use
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Parsing simple sentences:::
>>> from linkgrammar import Parser
>>> p = Parser()
>>> linkages = p.parse_sent("This is a simple sentence.")
>>> len(linkages)
2
>>> print linkages[0].diagram

+-------------------Xp------------------+
| +--------Ost-------+ |
| | +-------Ds------+ |
+---Wd---+-Ss*b+ | +----A----+ |
| | | | | | |
LEFT-WALL this.p is.v a simple.a sentence.n .