Lexical Tools, Java 8.0, UTF-8, 2026 Release:
12/18/2025
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 2026 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.2026
- 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 2026 data
- SPECIALIST LEXICON 2026 Data Summary:
| Component | Amount | Notes
|
|---|
| Words (forms)
| 1,007,889 | includes single words and multiwords
|
| derivations
| 158,427 | includes zeroD, prefixD, suffixD
|
| synonyms
| 283,154 | Sources: CUI, EUI, NLP
|
| antonyms
| 17,700 | Sources: LEX, SD, PD, CC, SN
|
