install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install freeling

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%

sudo port install freeling

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/freeling/Portfile · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Suite of language analyzers

Project links

Commands and aliases

analyzer
analyzer_client
convert_model
threaded_analyzer
treeler

history

Project history and usage

FreeLing is an open source language-analysis suite from the TALP Research Center at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. It is a C++ library with command-line front ends for morphological analysis, named entity detection, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, word-sense disambiguation, semantic-role labeling, and related NLP tasks.

Project history

The official FreeLing page says the project was created and led by Lluis Padro to make UPC natural-language-processing research available to the community. The project grew into a multilingual library and command-line toolkit, with official documentation for developers and non-developer users.

Adoption history

FreeLing is more common in research and NLP toolchain packaging than in general-purpose system distributions. The supplied package facts list Homebrew and MacPorts, while the official project distributes source through GitHub and publishes user documentation for installation, modules, configuration files, and the analyzer front end.

How it is used

Users run analyzer or threaded_analyzer for text analysis and use configuration files under the FreeLing data/config tree to choose language resources and output formats such as XML, JSON, or CoNLL. Developers link the C++ library modules directly and consult the technical reference manual.

Why package nerds care

FreeLing is a science-package example where code and linguistic data are inseparable. Packagers must install binaries, C++ libraries, model data, language-specific resources, and configuration files in paths that let the analyzer find the right data without manual environment surgery.

Timeline

Pre-2016: FreeLing was developed at UPC/TALP as an open source NLP suite.
2016: GitHub releases list FreeLing 4.0.
2018: GitHub releases list FreeLing 4.1.
2020: GitHub releases list FreeLing 4.2.
2020s: The Read the Docs user manual documents current installation, modules, configuration, and analyzer usage.

Related projects

The official site links FreeLing to TALP Research Center, UPC, its technical reference manual, online demo, linguistic data, and community contributions. Related package-level tools in the same source tree include analyzer, analyzer_client, crfsuite, and treeler.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

text:client

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ${FREELINGDIR}/share/freeling/config/*.cfg
Windows: %FREELINGDIR%\share\freeling\config\*.cfg

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure
`analyzer`	cli	global executable
`analyzer_client`	cli	global executable
`convert_model`	cli	global executable
`threaded_analyzer`	cli	global executable
`treeler`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version4.2.1

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/TALP-UPC/FreeLing

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/TALP-UPC/FreeLingnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:freeling
Version	4.2.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/freeling
Homepage	https://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/
Repository	https://github.com/TALP-UPC/FreeLing
Upstream docs	https://freeling-user-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest
License	AGPL-3.0-only
Source archive	https://github.com/TALP-UPC/FreeLing/releases/download/4.2/FreeLing-src-4.2.1.tar.gz
Dependencies	boost, dynet, icu4c@78
Build dependencies	cmake
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	freeling
Version Scheme	0
Revision	13
Conflicts With	crfsuite foma hunspell
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	yes
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

MacPorts95%

freeling

sudo port install freeling

normalized package name match
Matched by: Freeling

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: textproc/freeling/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/freeling.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
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package relationship graph
package version freshness
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