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- PC-KIMMO News
- =============
-
- January 16, 1992
-
- This announcement describes recent developments related to
- PC-KIMMO (an implementation for personal computers of Kimmo
- Koskenniemi's two-level model of word production and
- recognition).
-
- (1) PC-KIMMO version 1.0.6 update
-
- (2) KTEXT 1.0.1 update
-
- (3) 386 versions of PC-KIMMO and KTEXT
-
- (4) Englex, a 20,000-entry English lexicon
-
- (5) Recent publications related to PC-KIMMO
-
-
- The software described below is made freely available to the
- academic community for non-commercial use and redistribution. We
- invite your feedback on these programs. Please note that the
- software may be packaged in compressed archives: Zip files for
- MS-DOS and Stuffit files for Macintosh. (Hint for MS-DOS users:
- when you unzip a file, use the -d option to preserve the
- subdirectories.) You can obtain any of the software described
- below in either of two ways:
-
- 1. Request that we send it to you via e-mail. Be *sure* to
- specify which version you want: DOS, Mac, or UNIX. The software
- will be sent in encoded form: uu-encoding for MS-DOS and Binhex
- format for Macintosh. Utility programs for handling archives and
- encoded files are available from computer bulletin boards or from
- your university computing center.
-
- 2. Send a diskette and a self-addressed, stamped diskette
- mailer to the address below. Be *sure* to specify which version
- you want (DOS, Mac, UNIX) and the disk format.
-
-
- (1) PC-KIMMO 1.0.6 update
-
- PC-KIMMO version 1.0.6 has been available since November 1991.
- There are no functional changes, just a few bug fixes.
-
-
- (2) KTEXT 1.0.1 update
-
- KTEXT is a text-processing application that uses the PC-KIMMO
- parser. It is available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX.
- Version 1.0.1 fixes some bugs, particularly a memory leak.
-
-
- (3) 386 versions of PC-KIMMO and KTEXT
-
- We have recently succeeded in compiling versions of PC-KIMMO and
- KTEXT to take advantage of the 386 CPU in IBM compatible
- machines. The main advantage of these 386 versions is that they
- will use all available extended/expanded memory and will also use
- virtual memory. This means that you can load a lexicon that is
- larger than 640K.
-
-
- (4) Englex
-
- Englex is a new 20,000-entry English lexicon. It supersedes the
- toy English lexicon supplies on the PC-KIMMO release disk.
- Because it requires about 4.5MB of memory to load, you will need
- to run it on a Mac, under Unix, or using the new 386 versions of
- PC-KIMMO and KTEXT.
-
-
- (5) Recent publications related to PC-KIMMO
-
- Sproat, Richard. 1991. Review of "PC-KIMMO: a two-level
- processor for morphological analysis" by Evan L. Antworth.
- Computational Linguistics 17.2:229-231.
-
- Miles, Nathan L. 1991. Automatic generation of two-level FSM
- tables. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University. [Description of the
- KGEN rule compiler.]
-
-
- Requests for any of the software or articles described above
- and/or requests for more information should be sent to:
-
- Evan Antworth
- Academic Computing Department
- Summer Institute of Linguistics
- 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
- Dallas, TX 75236
- U.S.A.
-
- Internet: evan@.sil.org
- phone: 214/709-2418
- fax: 214/709-3387
-