Damir Cavar is a Natural Language Processing, AI, and Knowledge Representation scientist
by Damir Cavar
The standard Ubuntu distribution comes with various linguistic tools. I am linking here to 16.04(.1).
Various Finite State Transducer toolkits can be found in the package list that are used for the development of morphological analyzers, tokenizers, and other NLP tools:
There are also ready NLP tools for various languages in the standard package list:
Some repositories provide more packages that might be interesting or useful for linguistic work, be it language documentation or corpus linguistics:
I set up the SIL repository by creating as root or using sudo a file:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/sil.list
with this content for Ubuntu xenial (16.04):
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu xenial main