Section: Software

Alpage's linguistic workbench, including Sx Pipe

Participants : Benoît Sagot [correspondant] , Rosa Stern, Pierre Boullier, Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie.

See also the web page http://lingwb.gforge.inria.fr/ .

Alpage's linguistic workbench is a set of packages for corpus processing and parsing. Among these packages, the Sx Pipe package is of a particular importance

Sx Pipe, now in version 2 [109] is a modular and customizable chain aimed to apply to raw corpora a cascade of surface processing steps. It is used

• as a preliminary step before Alpage's parsers (FRMG, SxLfg );

• for surface processing (named entities recognition, text normalization...).

Developed for French and for other languages, Sx Pipe 2 includes, among others, various named entities recognition modules in raw text, a sentence segmenter and tokenizer, a spelling corrector and compound words recognizer, and an original context-free patterns recognizer, used by several specialized grammars (numbers, impersonal constructions, quotations...).