Foma
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foma is a finite-state toolkit that implements Xerox lexc and xfst. It can be used for building morphologies of natural languages.
Installation
Note: foma requires libreadline to be installed, on Debian or Ubuntu use apt-get install libreadline5-dev
- Download the .tar.gz source from the website.
- Untar
- Run
make
If you get an error Makefile:12: *** missing separator. Stop., edit the Makefile and add \ to the end of the lines 11--13.
- This will create a binary
foma, which should be copied into yourPATH.
