LINGUIST List 11.2713

Thu Dec 14 2000

Software: Software Package: Lextools

Editor for this issue: James Yuells <jameslinguistlist.org>

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1. Richard Sproat, Software Package: Lextools

Lextools is a package of tools for creating weighted
finite-state transducers (WFST) from high-level linguistic
descriptions. These descriptions include: strings, regular
expressions, and lists of these; context-free and
context-dependent rewrite rules; and various more
specialized tools (e.g. a specialized tool for building
grammars of the mapping between digit strings and the
number-names for those strings). A version of lextools was
used, for instance, to build text analyzers for the Bell
Labs multilingual tts system
(http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/).

Lextools binaries are available free for non-commercial use
at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/lextools/ 
Supported platforms are: linux (i686), sgi (mips2) and sun4.

Lextools is built on top of, and requires, the AT&T WFST
toolkit (version 3.6), available free for non-commercial use
from: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/

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Richard Sproat Human/Computer Interaction Research
rwsresearch.att.com AT&T Labs -- Research, Shannon Laboratory
Tel: +1-973-360-8490 180 Park Avenue, Room B207, P.O.Box 971
Fax: +1-973-360-8809 Florham Park, NJ 07932-0000
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