hankcs / elit

Evolution of Language and Information Technology

The ELIT Project

The Emory Language Information Toolkit or Evolution of Language and Information Technology (ELIT) project provides:

• NLP tools readily available for research in various disciplines.
• Frameworks for fast development of efficient and robust NLP components.

The project is initiated and currently led by the Emory NLP research group. It is under the Apache 2 license. Please join our group to get notifications about updates and send us your feedback.

Installation

The machine should satisfy the requirements below before installing elit. If you installed the requirements below, you can skip next part of setup machine environment.

• python > 3.4

Setup machine environment

In this section, all the installation command execute

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip python-dev build-essential

MacOS

On Mac OS, please install homebrew first.

brew update
brew install python3

Install Elit

There are many ways to start a python and install python package. To keep it simple, I use virtualenv to initialize a environment come with python 3 and use pip as my python package management tools.

First of all, update your pip of python 3 to latest version:

pip3 install --upgrade pip

Create an virtualenv with python 3. env is your environment name, you can change it as you want. However, for simplicity, I use env in the rest of part. For much more usage, please check the document.

virtualenv -p python3 env

Activate your virtualenv

source env/bin/activate

After you activate your virtualenv, you should your environment name in the starting of your command line, such as

(env) $

Let's assume your are running your python in the virtualenv, so I don't put the prefix env anymore.

Because of fasttext, cython are required and installed before we install elit. Since we're running python 3 in the virtualenv, we can just use pip instead of pip3.

pip install cython

Now, we can install elit!

pip install elit

If you have any question or want to report bugs, please let us know on github issues.

Thank you.