UNITEX 3.3 User Manual

Unitex is a collection of programs developed for the analysis of texts in natural language by using linguistic resources and tools. These resources consist of electronic dictionaries, grammars and lexicon-grammar tables, initially developed for French by Maurice Gross and his students at the Laboratoire d’Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL). Similar resources have been developed for other languages in the context of the RELEX laboratory network.Unitex can be viewed as a tool in which you can put linguistic resources and use them. Its technical characteristics are its portability, modularity, the possibility of dealing with languages that use specific writing systems (e.g. many Asian languages), and its openness, thanks to its open source distribution. Its linguistic characteristics are the ones that have motivated the elaboration of these resources: precision, completeness, and the taking into account of multiword expressions, most notably compound words