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+# XLE in Docker
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+Maintainer: Jakob Moser <moser@cl.uni-heidelberg.de>
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+Docker image containing the [Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE)][xle] to parse sentences using a Lexical Functional Grammar. 
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+Designed to be used in a "functional" style: You start a container from this image, pass a grammar and a sentence as input parameter and get the C- and F-structure in return. The container then terminates.
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+[xle]:https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/
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