Introduction to graf-python

The library graf-python is a Python implemenation to parse files GrAF/XML files as described in ISO 24612. The parser of the library create an annotation graph from the files. The user may then query the annotation graph via the API of graf-python. This documentation gives some examples how to acccess data and how to transform it for further processing in linguistic and computational libraries like networkX, numpy and NLTK.

References:

• GrAF Wiki (http://www.americannationalcorpus.org/graf-wiki)
• ISO 24612 (http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37326)

How to use the library

• Parsing GrAF
• Querying GrAF graphs
• Translation Graphs from GrAF/XML files

GrAF/XML Data Sources

• MASC: http://www.anc.org/MASC/Home.html
• QuantHistLing: http://www.quanthistling.info/data