Antelop: an industrial platform for linguistic processing

The Antelope linguistic platform, inspired by Meaning-Text Theory, targets the syntactic and semantic analysis of texts, and can handle large corpora. Antelope integrates several pre-existing (parsing) components as well as broad-coverage linguistic data originating from various sources. Efforts towards integration of all components nonetheless make for a homogeneous platform. Our direct contribution deals with components for semantic analysis, and the formalization of a unified text analysis model. This paper introduces the platform and compares it with state-of-the-art projects. It offers to the NLP community a feedback from a software company, by underlining the architectural measures that should be taken to ensure that such complex software remains maintainable. MOTS-CLÉS : traitement de corpus, analyse syntaxique et sémantique, lexique sémantique, désambiguïsation lexicale, résolution d'anaphores et de coréférences, Théorie Sens-Texte.