PyFCG is an open-source software library that ports Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) to the Python programming language. It is distributed via the Python Package Index (PyPI) and is pip-installable on macOS, Linux and Windows:

$ pip install pyfcg

PyFCG’s codebase is versioned using Git and distributed under an open source license. Its documentation is available via the Read the Docs platform.

Getting started with PyFCG

PyFCG comes with a number of walkthrough tutorials that showcase how the library can be integrated in typical use cases of FCG:

• Grammar formalisation and testing
• Learning construction grammars from corpora
• The canonical naming game
• Modelling emergent communication