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| Title | FreeLing 2.1: Five Years of Open-source Language Processing Tools |
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| Authors | Lluís Padró, Miquel Collado, Samuel Reese, Marina Lloberes and Irene Castellón |
| Abstract | FreeLing is an open-source multilingual language processing library providing awide range of language analyzers for several languages. It offers textprocessing and language annotation facilities to natural language processingapplication developers, simplifying the task of building those applications.FreeLing is customizable and extensible. Developers can use the defaultlinguistic resources (dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, etc.) directly, orextend them, adapt them to specific domains, or even develop new ones forspecific languages.This paper overviews the recent history of this tool, summarizes theimprovements and extensions incorporated in the latest version, and depicts thearchitecture of the library. Special focus is brought to the fact andconsequences of the library being open-source: After five years and over 35,000downloads, a growing user community has extended the initial threelanguages(English, Spanish and Catalan) to eight (adding Galician, Italian, Welsh,Portuguese, and Asturian), proving that the collaborative open model is aproductive approach for the development of NLP tools and resources. |
| Language | Multilinguality |
| Topics | Tools, systems, applications, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Multilinguality |
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FreeLing 2.1: Five Years of Open-source Language Processing Tools |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PADR10.14, author = {Lluís Padró, Miquel Collado, Samuel Reese, Marina Lloberes and Irene Castellón}, title = {FreeLing 2.1: Five Years of Open-source Language Processing Tools}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |