Leopar

Leopar is a natural language parser based on the Interaction Grammars formalism.

The current version is 1.5.7 (based on Leopar's library v. 1.4.4) and was released on June 9, 2011.

• A first example
• Gallery: more examples
• What you have to know to use Leopar
• About Leopar/Frigram dependencies
• Try the French demo online!

• Full road-map to install and run leopar on a Debian based distribution
• Full road-map to install and run leopar on Mac OS X (before Lion)
• Full road-map to install and run leopar on Mac OS X Lion

• Leopar user's documentation
• Release notes
• Firefox goodies

• More info on Leopar's installation
• More info on launching and configuring Leopar

• Overview of the parsing process
• The toolchain: how Leopar is interfaced with other tools
• Interaction Grammars

• Frigram is a French interaction grammar
• FriLex is a French lexicon ready to be used with Leopar and Frigram

The parser is developed in the Calligramme Team (LORIA - INRIA).

• Bruno GUILLAUME is the main developer of the parser
• Guy PERRIER is the main developer of the linguistic resources
• Guillaume BONFANTE contributes to parsing algorithms and brings many other ideas
• Sylvain POGODALLA was one the historical pioneer
• Paul MASSON is working hard to make everything cleaner, installable and usable

Many other people have contributed to Leopar with ideas, code, resources: Joseph Le Roux, Jonathan Marchand, Mathieu Morey, Karën Fort, Valmi Dufour-Lussier, Shohreh Tabatabayi Seifi, Jennifer Planul, Hassen Ben-Zineb, Masood Ghayoomi, Philippe Schmucker.