Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: CLAM
Version: 0.9.10.2
Summary: Computational Linguistics Application Mediator. Turn command-line NLP tools into fully-fledged RESTful webservices.
Home-page: http://proycon.github.com/clam
Author: Maarten van Gompel
Author-email: proycon@anaproy.nl
License: GPL
Description: ====================================================
        CLAM: Computational Linguistics Application Mediator
        	by Maarten van Gompel
        	Centre for Language Studies
            Radboud University Nijmegen
        
        	Licensed under GPLv3
        		
        	Website: http://proycon.github.io/clam
        
        	Source repository: https://github.com/proycon/clam/
        
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        CLAM allows you to quickly and transparently transform your Natural Language
        Processing application into a RESTful webservice, with which both human
        end-users as well as automated clients can interact. CLAM takes a description
        of your system and wraps itself around the system, allowing end-users or
        automated clients to upload input files to your application, start your
        application with specific parameters of their choice, and download and view the
        output of the application once it is completed.
        
        CLAM is set up in a universal fashion, requiring minimal effort on the part of
        the service developer. Your actual NLP application is treated as a black box,
        of which only the parameters, input formats and output formats need to be
        described. Your application itself needs not be network aware in any way, nor
        aware of CLAM, and the handling and validation of input can be taken care of by
        CLAM.
        
        CLAM is entirely written in Python, runs on UNIX-derived systems, and is
        available as open source under the GNU Public License (v3). It is set up in a
        modular fashion, and offers an API, and as such is easily extendable. CLAM
        communicates in a transparent XML format, and using XSL transformation offers a
        full web 2.0 web-interface for human end users. 
        
        For installation instructions, make sure to read the provided 'INSTALL' file!
        For full documentation see the manual in docs/clam_manual.pdf , also accessible
        through the CLAM website at http://proycon.github.io/clam . It is recommended
        to read this prior to starting with CLAM. 
        
        IMPORTANT NOTICE: It's discouraged to download the zip packages or tarballs
        from github, either properly use git instead, or install CLAM from the Python
        Package Index (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CLAM), through easy_install, which
        it the recommended way:
        
         $ sudo easy_install clam     
        
        This will download CLAM automatically. If you obtained the git version and what
        to install that:
        
         $ sudo ./setup.py install
        
        For further installation instructions, please read the supplied INSTALL file.
        
Keywords: clam webservice rest nlp computational_linguistics rest
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: WSGI :: Application
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
