The ELIT Project 
The Emory Language Information Toolkit or Evolution of Language and Information Technology (ELIT) project provides:
- NLP tools readily available for research in various disciplines.
- Frameworks for fast development of efficient and robust NLP components.
The project is initiated and currently led by the Emory NLP research group. It is under the Apache 2 license. Please join our group to get notifications about updates and send us your feedback.
Installation
The machine should satisfy the requirements below before installing elit. If you installed the requirements below, you can skip next part of setup machine environment.
- python > 3.4
Setup machine environment
In this section, all the installation command execute
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip python-dev build-essential
MacOS
On Mac OS, please install homebrew first.
brew update
brew install python3
Install Elit
There are many ways to start a python and install python package. To keep it simple, I use virtualenv to initialize a environment come with python 3 and use pip as my python package management tools.
First of all, update your pip of python 3 to latest version:
pip3 install --upgrade pip
Create an virtualenv with python 3. env is your environment name, you can change it as you want. However, for simplicity, I use env in the rest of part. For much more usage, please check the document.
virtualenv -p python3 env
Activate your virtualenv
source env/bin/activate
After you activate your virtualenv, you should your environment name in the starting of your command line, such as
(env) $
Let's assume your are running your python in the virtualenv, so I don't put the prefix env anymore.
Because of fasttext, cython are required and installed before we install elit. Since we're running python 3 in the virtualenv, we can just use pip instead of pip3.
pip install cython
Now, we can install elit!
pip install elit
If you have any question or want to report bugs, please let us know on github issues.
Thank you.