FYI: Grammar Software,Syntax Student's Companion

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Ann Copestake

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The LKB system, a development environment for constraint-based grammar frameworks, is now available for free download from http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~aac/lkb.html The LinGO project's computational grammar for English, which uses the HPSG framework, is available from the same site. The LinGO grammar can be used for parsing and generation with the LKB system. Other smaller grammars, primarily intended for teaching purposes, are also downloadable. The LKB system is distributed as Common Lisp source code and as a standalone executable for Linux and Solaris. Detailed documentation for the LKB system, including an introduction to typed feature structure formalisms, is also available online, a http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~aac/doc5-2.pdf Please see the documentation and the LKB Website for further details. Ann Copestake Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Stanford University Not to long ago there was a posting announcing a freeware Java program called the Syntax Student's Companion. I'm sure that more than one person was put off by having to link this program to a Java virtual machine (I certainly was--I know nothing about Java or programming). Anyway, installing the program is not really that difficult. Here are some pointers: (1) Get the following file: SSC041.zip It can be found at: http://wwwetu.utc.fr/~maxaurel/welcome.html Then, unzip the file in (e.g.) c: (2) Get the latest Java Developer's Kit (JDK 1.2.2) and install i on your machine. The file name is: jdk1_2_2-win.exe and can be downloaded from various sites: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/ http://www.javasoft.com It's a big file (approx. 20 Mb), so it might be wise to run an FTP search for a reasonably close site. (BTW, don't use JDK 1.2.1--I did and got pretty poor results.) (3) With Notepad, make a file called (e.g.) SYNTAX.BAT and inser the following commands: @ECHO OFF REM This file is SYNTAX.BAT path C:\jdk1.2.2\bin;%path% set CLASSPATH=C:\SSC041 java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;SSC.jar SSCFrame Make sure to place this file in the same directory as the Student's Syntax Companion program. You can make a shortcu from SYNTAX.BAT if need be. (4) Click on SYNTAX.BAT to use the program. Hope this helps. If anyone knows of a better way to do it, please let me know. Like I said, I know nothing about Java, so please (pretty please) don't hold me responsible if I've said something silly. Joe Hilferty __________________________________________________________ Home page: http://lingua.fil.ub.es/~hilferty/homepage.html