Lexical Tools

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Lexical Tools, Java 8.0, UTF-8, 2027 Release:

12/01/2026


Lexical Tools is a core set of fundamental NLP tools designed to generate and retrieve lexical variants. Its functions (flow components) include retrieving inflectional variants, base/uninflected forms, spelling variants, derivational variants, synonyms, antonyms, fruitful variants, normalization forms, UTF-8 to ASCII conversion, lowercasing, abbreviations and acronyms, and more. The tookset currently provides over 64 flow components and 37 configuratble options.

This release incorporates the latest SPECIALIST LEXICON 2027 data integration and addresses serveral software change requests (SCRs). Details are available in the release notes.

Feature Enhancements & Bugs Fixes

  • Distributed both full version and lite version of lvg.2027
  • Upgraded dependencies:
    • HSqlDb 2.7.4-jdk8 (HyperSonic SQL Database)
    • ICU4J 77.1 (International Components for Unicode)
  • Maintained compatibility with JRE, 1.8.0_202
  • Integrated with SPECIALIST LEXICON 2027 data

  • SPECIALIST LEXICON 2027 Data Summary:
    ComponentAmountNotes
    Words (forms) 1,007,936includes single words and multiwords
    derivations 158,427includes zeroD, prefixD, suffixD
    synonyms 284,066 Sources: CUI, EUI, NLP
    antonyms 26,408Sources: LEX, SD, PD, CC, SN