Reading Files

The simplest way to read a file or a directory of conllu files is:

CL-USER> (defparameter *sents* (cl-conllu:read-conllu #P"/path/to/my/file.conllu"))
(#<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003CFD9C3}> #<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003D164C3}>
 #<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003D1BB13}> #<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003D2C013}>
 #<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003D348A3}> #<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003D3E383}>
 #<CL-CONLLU:SENTENCE {1003D49C23}>)

Each object returned is an instance of a sentence class, made up of token objects, which we will describe in the next section.

All read functions accept a fn-meta function as argument. This function collects the metadata from each CoNLL-U sentence, which usually includes the raw sentence (see format). The default metadata collector function is collect-meta.