Outilex, plate-forme logicielle de traitement de textes \'ecrits

TL;DR

Outilex is a comprehensive, XML-based software platform for written text processing that integrates various linguistic resources and supports multiple approaches, aimed at research, development, and industry applications.

Contribution

It introduces a unified platform combining lexicon, grammar, and resource management with flexible formats and licensing, facilitating advanced text processing in multiple languages.

Findings

Includes manually constructed French and English lexicons from LADL

Supports combining statistical and resource-based approaches

Provides format converters and resource management tools

Abstract

The Outilex software platform, which will be made available to research, development and industry, comprises software components implementing all the fundamental operations of written text processing: processing without lexicons, exploitation of lexicons and grammars, language resource management. All data are structured in XML formats, and also in more compact formats, either readable or binary, whenever necessary; the required format converters are included in the platform; the grammar formats allow for combining statistical approaches with resource-based approaches. Manually constructed lexicons for French and English, originating from the LADL, and of substantial coverage, will be distributed with the platform under LGPL-LR license.