Alpino in Docker

Running Alpino inside Docker.

About Alpino: http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/alp/Alpino/

Windows

If you are using Docker for Windows you need alpino.cmd. In the examples below substitute alpino.cmd for alpino.bash.

If you are using Docker Toolbox you need alpino.bash.

Linux, Mac

You need alpino.bash.

Upgrade

If you have been using an older version of alpino.bash, you may need to update the Docker image:

alpino.bash -u

Starting Docker

There are two ways of starting Alpino in Docker.

1— This brings you into a bash shell inside Docker, where you can run Alpino itself:

alpino.bash $HOME/alpino

Inside the shell, there is a virtual directory ~/data that corresponds to the real directory you gave as an argument to the script, in this case $HOME/alpino. You use it to save and access data on your regular file system.

2— You can also run a single command, without going to the shell first:

alpino.bash $HOME/alpino Alpino

In this case, there is no directory ~/data in Docker, but there is /work/data with the same purpose.

Running Alpino inside Docker

Inside Docker, you can run Alpino (the actual application) interactively.

If you have access to an X11 server, this will start the Alpino GUI:

Alpino

This starts and interactive version of Alpino without the GUI:

Alpino -notk

But mostly you will use Alpino as a command line tool, along with a number of other tools for doing things with corpora.

There are a lot of things you can do, beyond tokenizing en parsing text.

• there are tools for editing, searching, transforming and visualizing parsed documents
• you can view Universal Dependencies
• you can save whole or partial parse trees, as well as Universal Dependencies, as bitmap or vector images

For a step by step introduction, run:

info