mallex1

Usage

Overview

Malaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis.

The program mallex generates a Malaga run-time lexicon by letting allomorph rules process a base-form lexicon. It can be started in interactive mode to help find bugs in the base-form lexicon or in the allomorph rules.

mallex uses the following grammar components:

symbol-file

The symbol-file has the suffix .sym and contains the symbols that are used in the lexicon and/or the allomorph rules.

rule-file

The rule-file has the suffix .all and contains the allomorph rules used to create the runtime-lexicon.

lexicon-file

The lexicon-file has the suffix .lex and contains the base-form lexicon entries that are used as input for the allomorph rules.

prelex-file (optional)

The prelex-file has the suffix .prelex and contains precompiled allomorph entries, which have been created by a former run of mallex with the option -prelex.

You can give the names of the grammar components as command line arguments, in any order. Alternatively, you can describe these components in a project-file and use the name of the project file as mallex' single command-line argument. A project file has the suffix .pro.

If no command line options are given, mallex runs in interactive mode, and you can enter commands. The lexicon-file and prelex-file are not used in interactive mode. If you are not sure about the name of a command, use the command help to get an overview of all mallex commands.

If you want to quit mallex, enter the command quit.

See info Malaga for details.

Options

-b[inary]

Create the run time lexicon file from the base form lexicon file and the optional prelex file, and save it as a binary run-time lexicon, which can be used by malaga.

-h[elp]

Print a help text about mallex' command line arguments and exit.

-p[relex]

Create the run time lexicon, and save it as a binary prelex-file, which can be read in later by another mallex run. output stream.

-r[eadable]

Create the run time lexicon but don't save it, but print its entries in human-readable form on the standard output stream.

-v[ersion]

Print mallex' version number and exit.