TULE

• This git project contains the last release of the TUrin Linguistic Enviroment, i.e. TULE. TULE is a set of common lisp programs to perform NLP tasks for the Italian Language. In particular, TULE contains:

  • A sentence splitter
  • A tokenizer
  • A morphological analyzer and disambiguator
  • A PoS (Part of Speech) tagger
  • A Dependecy rule-based syntactic parser
  • A semantic interpreter based on ontologies (experimental)

  TULE has been developed by the Prof. Leonardo Lesmo in more than twenty years. Leonardo died October 1th 2013. People that met him knows how much energy, time and passion he spent in developing TULE. Leonardo wanted to share TULE with everybody, so we distribute it with GPL license.

  The directory "docs" contains a number of documents wrote by Leonardo concerning various features of TULE.

• Very small tutorial to use TULE:

  1. You need a common lisp interpreter. TULE has originally been developed in Allegro CL but a free and tested alternative is clisp.

  2. The parser can be used in two differen ways:

     A. by calling the"tule" file from CL interpreter. In this case you can call "tule" lisp file from the CL prompt. In order to speed-up the execution you can compile the lisp code by calling the "compile-all" lisp file.

     B. by using a socket based server. In this case you need to call the server ( "serverStarter.sh" ) and you can use a graphical client ("java -jar viewerTULETUT-locale-3001.jar", developed by Livio Robaldo), or in alternative a very basical textual client ("clientParser.lisp").

• NOTE: if you did not meet Leonardo, he was "the" free spirit. One sentence that he liked to cite was: "Chi trova dolce la propria terra è solo un tenero dilettante; chi trova dolci tutte le terre è un uomo che si è incamminato già su una buona via, ma è perfetto solo chi si sente straniero in ogni luogo" (Ugo di San Vittore)