Leopar

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

The current version is 1.6.0 (based on Leopar's library v. 1.6.0) and was released on May 29, 2012.

• 1.6.0 The corpus mode is available without dependency extraction (more info)
• 1.6.0 Grammar can be loaded even if it contains ill-formed tree description
• 1.5.0 It is possible to use an external lexicon (more info)

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

• Install and run leopar on a Debian/Ubuntu based distribution
• Install and run leopar on Mac OS X
• Release notes
• Firefox goodies

• Graphical User Interface
• Corpus mode
• Cluster mode
• Full list of options
• Documentation for the resource developer

• 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
• Some ongoing doc on nodes

• Versions
• Browse SVN repository for libcaml-leopar and for leopar
• Dev's corner

• 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.