LINGUIST List 3.186

Thu 27 Feb 1992

FYI: Software available

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  • David C. J. Leip, Lexicon Construction
  • Evan Antworth, concordance program for Macintosh
  • Evan Antworth, English lexicon available

    Message 1: Lexicon Construction

     Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 10:40:00 -0Lexicon Construction
    From: David C. J. Leip <davidsnowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
    Subject: Lexicon Construction


    Re: Christopher Brewster's Query regarding Lexicon Construction Software

    I am presently working on a software tool to help computer speech recognition interface designers build acoustically distinct vocabularies. Don't know if this interests you or not. (?)

    - David Leip. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | David Leip University of Guelph | | davidsnowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca Computing & Information Science | | (519) 824-4120 ext.3709 Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Message 2: concordance program for Macintosh

     Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 9:35:10 CSTconcordance program for Macintosh
    From: Evan Antworth <evanutafll.uta.edu>
    Subject: concordance program for Macintosh


    Conc is a program for the Macintosh that produces keyword in context concordances. It can handle both ordinary flat text and multiple-line interlinear text. In the case of interlinear text, it can concord correspondences between two annotation lines. It can also do letter concordances to facilitate phonological analysis. Conc permits the user to limit the concordance to just those words that match a specified pattern (GREP expression).

    Concordances can be saved to disk, printed, and exported to a plain text file. As for performance, producing a concordance of Moby Dick (1,177KB) on a Mac IIci takes about 13 minutes and requires about 2,500KB of memory. Documentation is included on-line in a Microsoft Word file. Conc was written by John Thomson of SIL.

    Conc version 1.70 is a beta test version offered as 'freeware'. If you use it, we only ask that you send us your comments, complaints, and wishlist. You can affect the shape of the final product!

    Conc is available in either of two way:

    1. Conc can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from the Consortium for Lexical Research at clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.11]. In the directory pub/tools/concordances/conc you will find the file conc170.hqx, which is a binhexed, Stuffed archive. Send e-mail inquiries to lexicalnmsu.edu. (While you are connected, I recommend downloading the file catalog-short from the top directory.)

    2. Conc can be ordered on disk from:

    International Academic Bookstore 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. phone: (214)709-2404

    Cost for media and shipping is $4 to North America and $6 overseas. (Checks *must* be drawn on a U.S. bank. They do not accept credit cards, but will bill by invoice.)

    Evan Antworth | Internet: evansil.org Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387 Dallas, TX 75236 |

    Message 3: English lexicon available

     Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 10:08:35 CSEnglish lexicon available
    From: Evan Antworth <evanutafll.uta.edu>
    Subject: English lexicon available


    Englex is a morphological parsing lexicon of English intended for use with PC-KIMMO and/or KTEXT. It's 20,000 entries consist of affixes, roots, and indivisible stems. Both inflectional and derivational morphology are analyzed. Englex will run under Unix, Macintosh, or MS-DOS (the files are plain ascii and are identical for all three versions). Because of memory requirements, to run Englex under MS-DOS you will need a 386 cpu and the new 386 versions of PC-KIMMO and KTEXT. These 386 versions will use all available extended/expanded memory and virtual memory. They support VCPI-compliant memory managers such as DOS 5.0's EMM386 and Quarterdeck's QEMM. They do not support (or need) Windows.

    All of this software can by downloaded by anonymous FTP from the Consortium for Lexical Research at clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.11]. Send e-mail inquiries to lexicalnmsu.edu. (For a listing of their holdings, get the file catalog-short in the top directory.) Here are the subdirectories and file names:

    Directory: pub/tools/ling-analysis/englex_pckimmo englex10.zip Zipped MS-DOS file of englex10 englex10.tar.Z Compressed UNIX tar file of englex10 englex10.hqx Stuffed, binhexed Mac file of englex10

    Directory: pub/tools/ling-analysis/morphology/pc-kimmo pckim108.zip Zipped MS-DOS file of pc-kimmo108 (inc. 386 version) pckim108.tar.Z Compressed UNIX tar file of pc-kimmo108 sources pckimmo108.hqx Stuffed, binhexed Mac file of pc-kimmo108

    Directory: pub/tools/ling-analysis/morphology/ktext ktext103.zip Zipped MS-DOS fiel of ktext103 (inc. 386 version ktext103.tar.Z Compressed UNIX tar file of ktext103 sources ktext103.hqx Stuffed, binhexed Mac file of ktext103

    Englex, PC-KIMMO, and KTEXT are offered as 'freeware' to the academic community; your feedback is welcomed.

    Evan Antworth | Internet: evansil.org Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387 Dallas, TX 75236 | U.S.A. |