reference-segmentator

This Java program was developed as part of a year-long term paper (bachelor's degree, third year) at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University, Russia.

What this does

This is a prototype Java program that allows you to parse a list of references (contained in a text file) into their components (authors, book/article title, publisher, etc.) written as a .json file.

As an example, this reference:

Аркадьев П. М. О некоторых особенностях склонения в адыгских языках // Плунгян В. А. (отв. ред.). Язык. Константы. Переменные: Памяти Александра Евгеньевича Кибрика. СПб.: Алетейя, 2014. С. 552—563.

will be converted to this JSON object:

  {
    "pagination": "С. 552—563",
    "city": "СПб.",
    "year": "2014",
    "collection-editors": "Плунгян В. А. (отв. ред.)",
    "collection-title": "Язык. Константы. Переменные: Памяти Александра Евгеньевича Кибрика",
    "publishers": "Алетейя",
    "article-title": "О некоторых особенностях склонения в адыгских языках",
    "authors": "Аркадьев П. М."
  }

See the examples folder for more examples.

Usage

1. Download reference-segmentator.zip from the dist folder.

2. Run reference-segmentator.jar on your input file with references:

java -jar reference-segmentator.jar your-input-file.txt

If the path to the input file has not been specified, examples from input-sample.txt will be processed.

You can also specify the path for the output .json file (default: output.json) with -o output_path or --output output_path.

Full command-line syntax with all options

java -jar [ input_path ] [ [ -o | --output ] output_path ] [ [ -c | --config ] config_path ]

Arguments:

• input_path (optional): the path to the input file with references (default: input-sample.txt)
• output_path (optional): the path to the output .json file with the parsed references (default: output.json)
• config_path (optional): the path to the configuration file (default: res/config.txt)

Configuration file

The program uses a configuration file (default location: res/config.txt) specifying the citation formats that can be processed. More information about changing the configuration can be found in the full text of the coursework and the accompanying handout (both in Russian).