iLanguage

A semi-unsupervised language independent morphological analyzer useful for stemming unknown language text, or getting a rough estimate of possible parses for morphemes in a word. Uses compression, maximum entropy and fieldlinguistics.

Install

$ npm install --save ilanguage

Usage

var iLanguage = require('ilanguage');
var lang = new iLanguage();

Lab Members

Gina Cook (U Delaware, Concordia)
Theresa Deering (McGill, Visit Scotland)
Josh Horner (Amilia)
Mathieu Legault (HEC, UQAM, Pivot88)
Hisako Noguchi (Concordia)
Tobin Skinner (McGill, Acquisio)

Post Docs

M.E. Cathcart (U Delaware)
Alexandra Marquis (UQAM, U de Montréal)

Interns

Siddartha Kattoju Summer 2011 (Concordia, Electrical Engineering)
Curtis Mesher Fall 2011, Spring 2012 (Concordia, Theoretical Linguistics)
Diana Olepeka Fall 2011 (Concordia, Theoretical Linguistics)
Bahar Sateli Spring 2012 (Concordia, Software Engineering)
Yuliya Manyakina Summer 2012 (Stony Brook, Field Linguistics)
Elise McClay Fall 2012, Spring 2013 (McGill, Field Linguistics)
Jesse Pollak Spring 2013 (Pomona College, Field Linguistics)
Xianli Sun Spring 2013 (Miami University, Software Engineering)
Louisa Bielig Summer 2013, Fall 2013 (McGill, Theoretical Linguistics)
Yuliya Kondratenko Summer 2013 (Concordia, Theoretical Linguistics)
Dominique Bédard Fall 2013, Spring 2014 (U de Montréal, Speech Language Pathology)
Alexandre Herbay Spring 2014 (U de Montréal, Psycho-linguistics & Toulouse III, Computer Science)

Release History

v1.0 April 16 2009 - Initial implementation in bash and perl
v2.0 Jul 3 2010 - Implementation in C++
v3.0 April 30 2011 - Implementation in Groovy
v4.0 July 20 2012 - Implementation in JavaScript Map Reduce
v4.1 Nov 29 2013 - Added more high level functions for gloss lookup
v5.0 Jan 9 2014 - Implementation in CommonJS

License

This project is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which is an very non-restrictive open source license which basically says you can adapt the code to any use you see fit.

How to Contribute Code

Signup for a GitHub account (GitHub is free for OpenSource)
Click on the "Fork" button to create your own copy.
Leave us a note in our issue tracker to tell us a bit about the bug/feature you want to work on.
You can follow the 4 GitHub Help Tutorials to install and use Git on your computer.
Feel free to ask us questions in our issue tracker, we're friendly and welcome Open Source newbies.
Edit the code on your computer, commit it referencing the issue #xx you created ($ git commit -m "fixes #xx i changed blah blah...") and push to your origin ($ git push origin master).
Click on the "Pull Request" button, and leave us a note about what you changed. We will look at your changes and help you bring them into the project!
Feel the glow of contributing to OpenSource :)

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