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Description:
Toolbox for morphological analysers and other FST-based tools

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: nlp linguistics fst morphology text-processing

Install: brew install sfst

About:
SFST (Stuttgart Finite State Transducer) is a toolbox for compiling and applying regular expressions over finite state transducers. It provides efficient tools for morphological analysis, generation, and other FST-based linguistic operations. The package includes the SFST compiler and command-line tools for working with morphological dictionaries.

Key Features:

Efficient finite state transducer compilation and application
Regular expression syntax for defining morphological rules
Command-line tools for analysis and generation
Support for weighted transducers and ambiguity handling

Use Cases:

Building morphological analyzers for natural language processing
Creating dictionary lookup systems for linguistics research
Developing text processing pipelines with morphological analysis

Alternatives:

hfst – HFST provides similar FST tools with broader format support and more languages
foma – Foma offers a comparable toolkit with graphical interface and different syntax

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2024 7:30pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	60c1ab93
Nov 24, 2022 4:14pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	521c7515