lx

lx - A library for lexical analysis of texts

One of lx's goals is interactive exploration. Lx is built for speed. The text is loaded and structured in memory, and most relations between items are a pointer dereference away.

Lx is also intended to make it easy to extract for other analysis tools. For example, it should be easy to use lx to extract data to feed into a statistical tool/language such as R.

My current intention is to use SWIG to link it with Python, Perl, and/or Guile, and provide a flexible platform that can be extended with high-level scripts. Currently it has a simple shell interface, lxt.

lx - library

• lx Example
• Documentation (PDF)

lxt - testing framework and application

• Lxt Application and Examples
• Lxt Quick Reference (HTML)
• Application Documentation (PDF) (skeleton outline only)
• API Documentation (PDF) (not there yet)

Licensing

Download

• lx2-0.1.tgz

Building

Currently Linux, OpenBSD, and Solaris are supported; FreeBSD/NetBSD should work.

• Unpack the source archive ("gunzip -c lx2-0.1.tgz | tar xvf -")
• cd into the directory, and into the src directory below
• Enter "./Configure"
• Enter "make"

This will build both the lx libraries (in lx2-0.1/src/lib) and lxt (in lx2-0.1/src).

Use of autoconf is also planned...