The FreeLing package consists of a library providing language analysis services.

FreeLing is designed to be used as an external library from any application requiring this kind of services. Nevertheless, a simple main program is also provided as a basic interface to the library, which enables the user to analyze text files from the command line.

Main services offered by FreeLing library:

• Text tokenization
• Sentence splitting
• Morphological analysis
• Suffix treatment, retokenization of clitic pronouns
• Flexible multiword recognition
• Contraction splitting
• Probabilistic prediction of unkown word categories
• Named entity detection
• Recognition of dates, numbers, ratios, currency, and physical magnitudes (speed, weight, temperature, density, etc.)
• PoS tagging
• Chart-based shallow parsing
• Named entity classification
• WordNet based sense annotation and disambiguation
• Rule-based dependency parsing
• Nominal correference resolution

Currently supported languages are Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, English, Russian, Portuguese, Welsh and Asturian. See the user manual for more information about which services are available for each language.

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