This is a library to parse kaf files. This library is required to use other components like the VU-polarity-tagger or the VU-sentiment-aggregator.

The first thing you need is to clone the github repository:

git clone [email protected]:opener-project/VU-kaf-parser.git

There are two ways of install the library.

This is the easiest way to use the library and make it available to the rest of modules. The only requirement is to include the folder where you did the clone of the repository in your PYTHONPATH envinronment variable

Once you have all the files, you have to install the python library so that you can use it from other python modules and script. For this purpose we provide an script called setup.py. To install the library:

python setup.py install

This command will install the VUKafParserPy. In some cases and depending on your system, you need root permissions to perform this action. In case you have no permisions to write in the python libraries folder or if you want to install this library in another folder, you can use the --prefix option.

python setup.py install --prefix=your_selected_path

In this case you should modify the PYTHONPATH envinroment variable to include the folder where you installed the library so that python could find the library. Depending on your system, the structure of the folder can be different. If you use linux or MAC the folder you have to add to your PYTHONPATH is your_selected_path/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages If you use windows: prefix\Lib\site-packages