Abstract
This chapter presents an outline of applications to language analysis that open up through the combined use of two simple yet powerful programming languages with particularly short descriptions: sed and awk. We shall demonstrate how these two UNIX1 tools can be used to implement small, useful and customized applications ranging from text-formatting and text-transforming to sophisticated linguistic computing. Thus, the user becomes independent of sometimes bulky software packages which may be difficult to customize for particular purposes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Natural Language Processing and Text Mining |
Editors | Anne Kao, Stephen R Poteet |
Publisher | Springer London |
Pages | 221-258 |
Number of pages | 38 |
ISBN (Print) | 184628175X, 9781846281754 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2007 |
Keywords
- linguistic computing
- regular expression
- control sequence
- pattern space
- input line
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)