NAME¶
mallex - generate a Malaga run-time lexicon
SYNOPSIS¶
mallex [
-binary|
-readable|
-prelex]
project-file
mallex [
-binary|
-readable|
-prelex]
symbol-file rule-file [
lexicon-file] [
prelex-file]
DESCRIPTION¶
Malaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the
Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic
morphological and/or syntactic analysis.
The program
mallex generates a Malaga run-time lexicon by letting
allomorph rules process a base-form lexicon. It can be started in
interactive mode to help find bugs in the base-form lexicon or in the
allomorph rules.
mallex uses the following grammar components:
- symbol-file
- The symbol-file has the suffix .sym and contains the symbols
that are used in the lexicon and/or the allomorph rules.
- rule-file
- The rule-file has the suffix .all and contains the allomorph
rules used to create the runtime-lexicon.
- lexicon-file
- The lexicon-file has the suffix .lex and contains the
base-form lexicon entries that are used as input for the allomorph
rules.
- prelex-file (optional)
- The prelex-file has the suffix .prelex and contains
precompiled allomorph entries, which have been created by a former run of
mallex with the option -prelex.
You can give the names of the grammar components as command line arguments, in
any order. Alternatively, you can describe these components in a
project-file and use the name of the project file as
mallex'
single command-line argument. A project file has the suffix
.pro.
If no command line options are given,
mallex runs in interactive mode,
and you can enter commands. The
lexicon-file and
prelex-file are
not used in interactive mode. If you are not sure about the name of a command,
use the command
help to get an overview of all
mallex commands.
If you want to quit
mallex, enter the command
quit.
See
info Malaga for details.
OPTIONS¶
- -b[inary]
- Create the run time lexicon file from the base form lexicon file and the
optional prelex file, and save it as a binary run-time lexicon, which can
be used by malaga.
- -h[elp]
- Print a help text about mallex' command line arguments and
exit.
- -p[relex]
- Create the run time lexicon, and save it as a binary prelex-file,
which can be read in later by another mallex run. output
stream.
- -r[eadable]
- Create the run time lexicon but don't save it, but print its entries in
human-readable form on the standard output stream.
- -v[ersion]
- Print mallex' version number and exit.
AUTHORS¶
Malaga has been developed by Bjoern Beutel. Numerous other people distributed to
it. This manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.
SEE ALSO¶
malaga(1),
malmake(1),
malrul(1),
malshow(1),
malsym(1)
``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''. Available in Debian systems via
info Malaga, and, if the malaga-doc package is installed, in various
formats (DVI, Postscript, PDF, HTML) under
/usr/share/doc/malaga-doc/.