Lingua::LinkParser 1.0 Copyright 2000, Dan Brian All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Description To quote the Link Grammar documentation, "the Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. Given a sentence, the system assigns to it a syntactic structure, which consists of set of labeled links connecting pairs of words." Requirements To install Lingua::LinkParser you must have already downloaded, compiled and install the Link Parser package from http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/. This module has been compiled and tested with Perl 5.005_03 on Linux 2.2.13. Installation To begin installation type: perl Makefile.PL This will ask you where your Link Parser package directory is located, and must contain the distribution obj/ and include/ directories, with obj/ containing compiled object files. Once the Makefile is written, you can build and test with: make make test The test will load the parser dictionary files and parse a sample sentence. If they do not, back up and figure out why before installation. To install: make install Documentation Full documentation is available in pod format within the .pm file: perldoc Lingua::LinkParser or perldoc ./LinkParser.pm Todo Documentation is lacking for many functions, and not all of the API functions have corresponding Perl entries. Help!