NAME

Unitex::Dela

SYNOPSIS

Unitex::Dela (and submodules) provide various methods to access a DELA-dictionary as provided by Unitex or Intex.

new (;@): Creates a new DELA lexicon object.
read_delaf (*file): Reads a DELA dictionary from a file handle.
parseDelafLine ($line): Parses a line of a DELAF dictionary. Returns Unitex::Dela::Entry object if parsed successful, `0' if line is commented out, `undef' if parse error occured.
matchDelafLine ($line, $meta): Match the pattern $meta against a line (=entry) of a DELA dictionary. A Unitex::Dela::Result object is returned if match succeeds.
lookUp ($wordform [, $meta]): Look up for a word form in the dictionary.; Second argument $meta can be used to filter the found entries by a lexical pattern, such as <.N>.
lookUpMeta ($meta): TO BE IMPLEMENTED !!!; Go through the complete dictionary stored in the Unitex::Dela object and try to match $meta against every stored entry.
lookUpLemma ($lemma [, $meta]): Look up for a lemma in the dictionary.; Second argument $meta can be used to filter the found entries by a lexical pattern, such as <.N>.

Sebastian Nagel, CIS Uni München

(wastl at cis.uni-muenchen.de)