Spejd / ♠ / SPADE

This page offers the official GNU General Public License release of Spejd, a tool for partial parsing and rule-based morphosyntactic disambiguation. By downloading the Spejd package you accept the conditions of that licence.

Downloads

The most current version of Spejd may be found on sourceforge page of Spejd. This is a reimplentation of Spejd in C++ with multiple efficiency improvements! Report bugs here.

An obsolete and no longer supported Java version 0.84 of Spejd:

• whole package (zipped)

• README in English

• README in Polish

• technical documentation (API)

You may also find it useful to test the Spejd Web Service.

Publications

Articles describing the formalism, the implementation and some applications. (Note that both have been evolving, so there are bound to be differences between these descriptions and the current implementation; articles are listed in reverse chronological order.)

• Adam Przepiórkowski. (2008). Powierzchniowe przetwarzanie języka polskiego. Warszawa: Akademicka Oficyna Wydawnicza EXIT.

• Aleksander Buczyński and Aleksander Wawer. (2008). Shallow parsing in sentiment analysis of product reviews.In: Proceedings of the Partial Parsing workshop at LREC 2008, pp. 14-18.

• Aleksander Buczyński and Adam Przepiórkowski. (2008). ♠ Demo: An Open Source Tool for Partial Parsing and Morphosyntactic Disambiguation. In: Proceedings of LREC 2008.

• Adam Przepiórkowski. (2007). Towards a Partial Grammar of Polish for Valence Extraction. To appear in: Proceedings of Grammar and Corpora 2007, Liblice, Czech Republic.

• Adam Przepiórkowski and Aleksander Buczyński. (2007). ♠: Shallow Parsing and Disambiguation Engine. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Language & Technology Conference, Poznań, Poland.

• Alekasander Buczyński. (2007). An Implementation of Combined Partial Parser and Morphosyntactic Disambiguator. In: Proceedings of ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Adam Przepiórkowski. (2007). A Preliminary Formalism for Simultaneous Rule-Based Tagging and Partial Parsing. In: Georg Rehm, Andreas Witt and Lothar Lemnitzer, eds., Data Structures for Linguistic Resources and Applications: Proceedings of the Biennial GLDV Conference 2007, Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 81-90.

What does Spejd stand for?

• Polish: Składniowy Parser (Ewidentnie Jednocześnie Dezambiguator) (author: Adam Przepiórkowski)
• English: Shallow Parsing and Eminently Judicious Disambiguation (author: Stan Szpakowicz)
• German: Syntaktisches Parsing Entwicklungsystem Jedoch mit Disambiguierung (author: Adam Przepiórkowski)
• French: Super Parseur Et Jolie Désambiguïsation (author: Anna Kupść)