Link grammar

[John]

Is there anyone that actually knows how to get link grammar to run
once its been downloaded. I get a message that says that the
installation files have an "IN" ending on them that is
unrecognizable. Not being a programmer, but a user, I'm not certain
how to make link grammar work. I'm just trying to finish up a
master's thesis and parse a few sentences from a few newpapers around
the country and was hoping this would work easily; hope someone out
there can help.

Best,
John

[jf]

It installs without any problems on Linux, but I assume that you are using Windows.  If you only need a few sentences parsed, perhaps you can email them and I can send you the output.

Regards,
Jay

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[John Almasi]

Thanks Jay,

Yes, it is a Windows system that I'm using. The word "few" was probably a bit of an understatement, its around 4000 sentences, but thank you so much for the offer.

Best,
John
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It installs without any problems on Linux, but I assume that you are using Windows. If you only need a few sentences parsed, perhaps you can email them and I can send you the output.

Regards,
Jay

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:38 AM, John <alm...@fit.edu<mailto:alm...@fit.edu>> wrote:
Is there anyone that actually knows how to get link grammar to run
once its been downloaded. I get a message that says that the
installation files have an "IN" ending on them that is
unrecognizable. Not being a programmer, but a user, I'm not certain
how to make link grammar work. I'm just trying to finish up a
master's thesis and parse a few sentences from a few newpapers around
the country and was hoping this would work easily; hope someone out
there can help.

Best,
John

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[Linas Vepstas]

Wow, I guess it would be best if someone could send you an installable
binary? Can anyone here who uses Windows volunteer to do this?

Anyway,
-- you've downloaded the thing,
-- you've read the readme,
-- you've tried to compile it, and ... ?

The only .in that matters is "link-grammar/link-features.h.in", you can
just copy that to link-grammar/link-features.h, and then hand-edit it to
replace bottom part with

#define LINK_MAJOR_VERSION 4
#define LINK_MINOR_VERSION 7
#define LINK_MICRO_VERSION 0

#define LINK_VERSION_STRING "4.7.0"

after that, it should compile fine (be sure to read the readme)

--linas

p.s. I can volunteer to parse 4K sentences; I've parsed millions so far...
... also if you are comparing link-grammar to other parsers, you really
want to look at relex, which does some more interesting and
human-readable higher-order stuff; its built on top of link-grammar