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Occasional Publications in Academic Computing
by the Summer Institute of Linguistics
Books and software for linguistic computing
April 1991
Current list of titles:
+ Document Preparation Aids for Non-Major Languages
+ The RAP Programming Language
+ AMPLE: A Tool for Exploring Morphology
+ WORDSURV: A Program for Analyzing Language Survey Word Lists
+ Laptop Publishing for the Field Linguist
+ STAMP: A Tool for Dialect Adaptation
+ PC-KIMMO: A Two-level Processor for Morphological Analysis
+ Formatting Interlinear Text
+ How to Use IT: a Guide to Interlinear Text Processing
+ How to Use IT: Interlinear Text Processing on the Macintosh
+ SHOEBOX: a data management program for the field linguist
OPAC 7 (1987)
Document Preparation Aids for Non-Major Languages
by Andy Black, David Weber, Fred Kuhl, and Kathy Kuhl
44 pages, $3.50
Software versions available for RT-11, TSX, MS-DOS, or UNIX.
This manual documents the WRDCHG, SYLCHK, SYLCOR, SPLCOR, HYPHEN,
and DELIM programs.
+ WRDCHG makes changes to the words of a text, while preserving
capitalization, punctuation, and formatting.
+ SYLCHK identifies potential spelling errors in text, using
decomposition into syllables as the method for identifying possible
errors, and returns these as a list.
+ SYLCOR is an interactive editor for correcting potential
errors, using the same method as SYLCHK for finding possible errors.
+ SPLCOR is an interactive editor for correcting potential
errors, based on word lists of known correct words.
+ HYPHEN introduces a user-determined character at syllable
boundaries. It uses a different mechanism for identifying
syllables than SYLCHK and SYLCOR.
+ DELIM checks text to see that delimiters (characters like
quote marks, brackets, braces, parentheses, and so on) are paired
and properly nested.
OPAC 10 (1988)
The RAP Programming Language
by Richard A. Strangfeld
250 pages, ISBN 0-88312-633-8, $36.00
This is sold in a package with OPAC 11.
Software available for MS-DOS only.
RAP is a full-featured programming language designed for building
user-friendly applications from a collection of stand-alone
programs. It can be viewed as a replacement for MS-DOS's batch
processor which offers the following added features: extensive
string-handling primitives, structured programming constructs,
built-in mechanism for displaying menus and handling user's
responses, and a wide range of primitives for testing the state
of the file system so that user-proof programs can be written.
OPAC 11 (1988)
A Common Subroutine Library for RAP Programmers
by Kirk H. Parker and Gary F. Simons
102 pages, ISBN 0-88312-634-6
This is sold in a package with OPAC 10.
Software available for MS-DOS only. Requires RAP (OPAC 10).
This book describes a set of useful functions for the RAP
programming language (see OPAC 10).
OPAC 12 (1988)
AMPLE: A Tool for Exploring Morphology
by David J. Weber, H. Andrew Black, and Stephen R. McConnel
252 pages, ISBN 0-88312-635-4, $26.00
Software versions available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, or UNIX.
When given the necessary information about the morphology of a
language, AMPLE will analyze each word in a text and break it
into morphemes. AMPLE is oriented to the "item and arrangement"
approach to the description of morphological phenomena. It can
handle nonconcatenative phenomena only indirectly.
AMPLE works together with STAMP (OPAC 15) for Computer Aided
Dialect Adaptation. It can also be used in conjunction with
ITF (OPAC 17) for publishing glossed texts in interlinear form.
OPAC 13 (1989)
WORDSURV: A Program for Analyzing Language Survey Word Lists
by John S. Wimbish
108 pages, ISBN 0-88312-636-2, ISSN 1041-1054, $11.15
Software available for MS-DOS only.
A typical language survey may involve activities like determining
linguistic relationships through the comparison of word lists,
testing dialect intelligibility by playing back tape-recorded
texts, and studying sociolinguistic aspects of language use and
language attitudes in multilingual situations. WORDSURV is
designed to aid the first of these areas--the collection and
analysis of word lists. It functions in three main areas:
(1) data entry and maintenance, (2) data analysis, and (3) data
output. WORDSURV also supports specialized kinds of analysis,
including lexicostatistics, phonostatistics, and comparative
reconstruction.
OPAC 14 (1989)
Laptop Publishing for the Field Linguist: an Approach Based on
Microsoft Word
edited by Priscilla M. Kew and Gary F. Simons
137 pages, ISBN 0-88312-637-0, ISSN 1041-1054, $13.00
Software available for MS-DOS only. Requires Microsoft Word.
This book describes various aspects of preparing manuscripts for
publication with Microsoft Word. Chapter titles include the
following:
+ A generic style sheet for academic publishing
+ Editing and design
+ Interfacing with other formatters: Word-SF and SF-Word
+ Setting up a user-defined keyboard: KeySwap and KeyDef
+ Working with special characters
+ Characters for publication quality output
The details on specific computer programs are all oriented to
MS-DOS software. However, the principles discussed in some
chapters are generally applicable.
OPAC 15 (1990)
STAMP: A Tool for Dialect Adaptation
by David J. Weber, Stephen R. McConnel, H. Andrew Black, and Alan Buseman
215 pages, ISBN 0-88312-638-9, ISSN 1041-1054, $20.00
Software versions available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, or UNIX.
Meeting literature needs in multilingual situations is a great
challenge. When the languages involved are closely related, it
may be possible to use a computer to adapt texts from one language
to another. This is an attractive approach if texts of comparable
or better quality can be produced with less effort than by
conventional means. STAMP is designed to adapt text in conjunction
with AMPLE (OPAC 12). It provides the Transfer and Synthesis steps
of the adaptation process. Output from STAMP is not ready for
immediate publication, but must be checked and corrected by a
competent speaker of the target language.
OPAC 16 (1990)
PC-KIMMO: A Two-level Processor for Morphological Analysis
by Evan L. Antworth
273 pages, ISBN 0-88312-639-7, ISSN 1041-1054, $23.00
Software versions available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, or UNIX.
PC-KIMMO is a new implementation for microcomputers of a program
named after its inventor Kimmo Koskenniemi, a Finnish
computational linguist. The program is designed to generate
(produce) and/or recognize (parse) words using a two-level model
of word structure in which a word is represented as a
correspondence between its lexical level form and its surface
level form. A PC-KIMMO language description comprises two files:
a set of two-level rules that handle phonological or spelling
alternations, and a lexicon that lists all morphemes and
specifies constraints on their order. The rules and lexicon are
implemented computationally using finite state machines. In
addition to the executable program, the primitive PC-KIMMO
functions are provided as a C-language source code library.
PC-KIMMO is of interest to computational linguists, descriptive
linguists, and developers of natural language processing systems.
OPAC 17 (1990)
Formatting Interlinear Text
by Jonathan Kew and Stephen McConnel
153 pages, ISBN 0-88312-743-1, ISSN 1041-1054, $14.00
Software versions available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, or UNIX.
Requires TEX (not available from SIL).
ITF (Interlinear Text Formatter) is a set of TEX macros for
typesetting interlinear texts. These macros can format an
arbitrary number of aligning annotations with up to two freeform
annotations. Programs are provided with the ITF package for
converting output from IT (see below) or from AMPLE (OPAC 12)
into the format required by ITF. The ITF TEX macros can be used
with either TEX 2.9 or TEX 3.0. A LATEX style is provided as well
as the plain TEX formatting definitions.