Slowal

This page provides the official release of Slowal, a web tool designed for creating valence dictionaries based on the format presented by Filip Skwarski. It describes each lemma by a list of individual frames presented as tables which can be expanded by adding new positions, arguments, series of characteristics and examples showing usage of the frame in the Polish language.

Principal developer: Bartłomiej Nitoń <bartek DOT niton AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>
Main linguistic support: Filip Skwarski <fskwarski AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>
License: 2-clause BSD

Documentation

Instructions for each group of users can be downloaded in the Polish language from the following links:

• Guests Instruction;
  

• Lexicographers Instruction;
  

• Superlexicographers Instruction.
  

Functionalities overview is presented at the poster from the HLT Days 2012: "A tool for creating a Polish Valence Dictionary".

Install instructions can be found in INSTALL file in the main project folder.

Downloads

Tool can be downloaded directly from the subversion repository.

Working application

Currently there is a working Slowal application at http://chopin.ipipan.waw.pl:8087/slowal/. To get guest access contact Bartłomiej Nitoń.