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Lexical Tools

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Lexical Tools, Java 8.0, UTF-8, 2025 Release:

12/18/2024


Lexical Tools is a set of fundamental core NLP tools for retrieving lexical variants. Functions (flow components) include retrieving inflectional variants, uninflectional forms, spelling variants, derivational variants, synonyms, antonyms, fruitful variants, normalization, UTF-8 to ASCII conversion, lowercase, abbreviations and acronyms, etc. There are over 64 flow components and 37 options offered in this tools set.

This release includes the latest data integration from the SPECIALIST LEXICON along with completion of software change requests (SCRs). They are briefly described as follows. Please refer to release notes for details.

Feature Enhancements & Bugs Fixes

  • Distributed both full version and lite version of lvg.2025
  • Upgraded to ICU4J 75.1 (International Components for Unicode)
  • Upgraded to HSqlDb 2.7.3-jdk8 (HyperSonic SQL DB)
  • Kept JRE, 1.8.0_202

  • Integrated with data from the SPECIALIST LEXICON, 2025
    ComponentAmountNotes
    Words (forms) 1,007,634including: single words and multiwords
    derivations 158,409including: zeroD, prefixD, suffixD
    synonyms 282,602 Sources including: CUI, EUI, NLP
    antonyms 13,076Source models including: LEX, SD, PD, CC, SN