What is NOT FreeLing

FreeLing is not a user-oriented text analysis tool. That is, it is not designed to be user friendly, or to output results with a cute image, or in a certain format.

FreeLing results are linguistic analysis in a data structure. Each end-user application (e.g. anything from a simple syntactic-tree drawing plugin to a complete machine translation system) can access those data and process them as needed.

Nevertheless, FreeLing package provides a quite complete application program (analyzer) that enables an end user with no programming skills to obtain the analysis of a text. See chapter 6 for details.

This program offers a set of options that cover most of FreeLing capabilities. Nevertheless, much more advantadge can be taken of FreeLing, and more information can be accessed if you call FreeLing from your own application program.



Lluís Padró 2013-09-09