Kanónes

Summary

• Overview
• API docs for version 1.0.0
• Current version: 1.0.0. See release notes

Technical prerequisites

• A POSIX-like environment with sh, echo and make
• The simple build tool, sbt
• The Stuttgart FST tools

Installing and using kanónes

• Installation and configuration
• Managing your data sets
• Building and applying a FST parser

Building blocks

The kanónes github repository at https://github.com/neelsmith/kanones includes the basic logic for parsing Greek morphology, written in the language of the Stuttgart Finite State Transducer toolbox (SFST). You supply data for a specific corpus in simple tables (as described below). The Kanónes library can read your data set, rewrite it in the SFST notation, and combine this with the basic parsing logic to compile a parser.

• defining the orthographic system of a corpus
• the URN manager (TBA)
• assembling morphological datasets
• using code libraries to work with parsed output

The parsing logic of the FST

In order to use kanónes, it is not necessary to understand the internal logic that the FST follows in parsing morphlogy. For those who are curious about how morphological can be expressed independently of any specific data sets, it is briefly described here.