NAME
mallex - generate a Malaga run-time lexicon
SYNOPSIS
mallex [-binary|-readable|-prelex]
project-file
mallex [-binary|-readable|-prelex]
symbol-file rule-file [lexicon-file] [prelex-file]
DESCRIPTION
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
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.
AUTHORS
Malaga has been developed by Bjoern Beutel. Numerous other people distributed
to it. This manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.
SEE ALSO
malaga(1), malmake(1), malrul(1), malshow(1),
malsym(1)
``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''. Available in Debian
systems via info Malaga, and, if the malaga-doc package is installed,
in various formats (DVI, Postscript, PDF, HTML) under
/usr/share/doc/malaga-doc/.
