Java library for French linguistics
Rayon is a Java library dedicated to French linguistics - based on the excellent GLAWI lexicon (http://redac.univ-tlse2.fr/lexiques/glawi.html).
Rayon employs several advanced technologies so as to deliver an efficient and customizable experience; in particular, it relies on:
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Streamed NIO2 line-reading, ExecutorService, regular expressions and Java 8 new-style closures, to foster efficiency without losing extensibility in terms of lemma analysis
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immutable, functional class tree, focusing on the most important parts of speech (noun, adjective, verb) - still ready for more detailed morphological inspections, as the original XML is kept
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API designed to be simple and usable
Java 8u151 or later compatible is recommended to employ the library.
Rayon is available on Hephaestus and can be declared as a Gradle or Maven dependency; please refer to its dedicated page.
Alternatively, you could download the JAR file from Hephaestus and manually add it to your project structure.
The very heart of Rayon is the GlawiParser class, that contains the parse(Consumer<LemmaArticle>) method and can be used like this:
try (GlawiParser parser = new GlawiParser(
Files.newBufferedReader(sourcePath)
)) {
parser.parse(lemmaArticle -> {
//Process the article, by calling its dedicated methods
});
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
}Other interesting aspects of the library are:
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Ending, to have a simple way to deal with word endings
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Transform and EndingTransform, to deal with morphological transforms
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FrequencyTracker and FrequencyTrackerIndex to perform multithreaded statistical analysis
Rayon is designed to parse the files produced by the excellent GLAWI project.
GLAWI is available under a Creative Commons By-SA 3.0 license (the same license as Wiktionary, from which it has been extracted).
For further information, please visit GLAWI's website.