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Converting a Toolbox lexical database to LKB format

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The LKB system (Linguistic Knowledge Builder) is a grammar and lexicon development environment for use with unification-based linguistic formalisms. LKB is focused on the use of HPSG. Data conversion scripts were developed by Hannes Hirzel to convert a Toolbox lexical database into the lexicon format needed by LKB.

A presentation in Trondheim, 2005 (File:Toolbox-LKB-Link-slides - version 4.pdf) shows how this was applied to a lexicon file of the Ga language edited by Mary E. Kropp Dakubu.

The scripting language used is called 'Consistent changes' and built into the Toolbox program. You run the program from within Toolbox on the lexicon file by choosing the 'File', then 'Export' and 'TBox-LKB-Step1'. This starts processing of all steps. The result is a lexicon file in LKB format.


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A working portable setup is available from the author on request.