PROIEL command-line interface

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Description

This is a command-line interface for manipulating PROIEL treebanks.

Installation

This library requires Ruby >= 2.4. Install as

gem install proiel-cli

Using the command-line interface

This gem includes a command-line utility, proiel, which solves various routine tasks involving PROIEL-style treebanks.

proiel info, for example, displays metadata and some brief statistics, and proiel convert conll converts the treebank to CoNLL format. Use proiel --help for further examples and usage instructions.

To use the visualize command you will need to have graphviz installed. On macOS you can use Homebrew for this:

brew install graphviz

Make sure that the dot command is available in the path:

$ which dot
/usr/local/bin/dot

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

Development

To contribute to development, check out the git repository from GitHub and run bundle install to install all development dependencies. Then run rake to run the tests.

To install a development version of this gem, run bundle exec rake install.

Releasing a new version

To release a new version:

1. Update the version number in lib/proiel/cli/version.rb.
2. Run bundle exec rake release. This will:
   • Create a git tag for the version.
   • Push git commits and tags to the remote repository.
   • Push the .gem file to rubygems.org.