= Ruby-LinkParser

== Authors

• Michael Granger [email protected]
• Martin Chase [email protected]
• Giles Bowkett [email protected]

== Requirements

• Ruby >= 1.8.5
• The included fork of link-grammar-4.3.5 from the AbiWord project (http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/).

== General Information

This module is a Ruby binding for the link-grammar library, a syntactic parser of English.

This is a fork of a library found here: http://deveiate.org/projects/Ruby-LinkParser

I forked it purely for ease of installation. See INSTALL for detail.

=== Example Usage

require 'linkparser'

dict = LinkParser::Dictionary.new( :screen_width => 100 ) sent = dict.parse( "People use Ruby for all kinds of nifty things." )

=> #<LinkParser::Sentence:0xcf8eb "LEFT-WALL people use Ruby for all kinds

of nifty things . RIGHT-WALL"/2 linkages/0 nulls>

sent.subject # => "people" sent.verb # => "use" sent.object # => "Ruby"

puts sent.constituent_tree_string

=>

(S (NP People)

(VP use

(NP Ruby)

(PP for

(NP (NP all kinds)

(PP of

(NP nifty things)))))

.)

puts sent.diagram

=>

+-------------------------------Xp------------------------------+

| +----MVp---+----Jp----+ +------Jp-----+ |

+----Wd---+--Sp--+--Os-+ | +-Dmc-+--Mp-+ +----A---+ |

| | | | | | | | | | |

LEFT-WALL people.p use.v Ruby for.p all kinds.n of nifty.a things.n .

== Legal

For copyright and licensing information for link-grammar itself, see the LICENSE file in that distribution.

Copyright (c) 2006-2008, Michael Granger Copyright (c) 2008, Giles Bowkett All rights reserved.

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