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ucto(1) General Commands Manual ucto(1)

NAME

ucto - Unicode Tokenizer

SYNOPSYS

ucto [[options]] [input-file] [[output-file]]

DESCRIPTION

ucto ucto tokenizes text files: it separates words from punctuation, splits sentences (and optionally paragraphs), and finds paired quotes. Ucto is preconfigured with tokenisation rules for several languages.

OPTIONS

-c configfile
read settings from a file
-d value
set debug mode to 'value'
-e value
set input encoding. (default UTF8)
-f
disable filtering of special characters
-L language

Automatically selects a configuration file by language code. e.g. 'fr' will select the file tokconfig-fr from the installation directory
-l
Convert to all lowercase
-u
Convert to all uppercase
-n
Emit one sentence per line on output
-m
Assume one sentence per line on input
--passthru
Don't tokenize, but perform input decoding and simple token role detection
-P
Disable Paragraph Detection
-Q
Enable Quote Detection. (this is experimental and may lead to unexpected results)
-S
Disable Sentence Detection
-s <string>
Set End-of-sentence marker. (Default <utt>)
-V
Show version information
-v
set Verbose mode
-F
Read a FoLiA XML document, tokenize it, and output the modified doc. (this disables usage of most other options: -nulPQvsS)
--textclass cls
When tokenizing a FoLiA XML document, search for text nodes of class 'cls'
-X
Output FoLiA XML. (this disables usage of most other options: -nulPQvsS)
--id <DocId>
Use the specified Document ID for the FoLiA XML
-x <DocId> (obsolete)
Output FoLiA XML, use the specified Document ID. (this disables usage of most other options: -nulPQvsS)
obsolete Use -X and --id instead

BUGS

likely

AUTHORS

Maarten van Gompel proycon@anaproy.nl
Ko van der Sloot Timbl@uvt.nl
2013 march 6