Enhancing Regular Expressions For Polish Text Processing

Abstract

The paper presents proposition of regular expressions engine based on the modified Thompson’salgorithm dedicated to the Polish language processing. The Polish inflectional dictionaryhas been used for enhancing regular expressions engine and syntax. Instead of usingcharacters as a basic element of regular expressions patterns (as it takes place in BRE orERE standards) presented tool gives possibility of using words from a natural language orlabels describing words grammar properties in regex syntax.

Keywords

• regular expressions; regex; natural language; the Polish language processing; CLP library