3.508 book; program; morphological analyzer (95)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 28 Sep 89 19:09:13 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 508. Thursday, 28 Sep 1989.
(1) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 01:39 EDT (16 lines)
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: Magee's book
(2) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 14:11:00 EDT (28 lines)
From: <BCJ@PSUVM>
Subject: text analysis
(3) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 16:38 EST (26 lines)
From: krovetz@UMass
Subject: morphological analyzer for English
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 01:39 EDT
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: Magee's book
>From the more or less teeming banks of OCLC:
Magee, Bryan
The Great Philosophers, An Introduction to Western Philosophy
ISBN: 0563205830
BBC Books
London
1987
352 pages
W. McCarthy
CUA
Washington, D.C.
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 14:11:00 EDT
From: <BCJ@PSUVM>
Subject: text analysis
Here's a note I received after posting the call for text analysis programs
HUMANIST ran for the student at Simon Fraser... Kevin Berland, L-ENGL
"moderator", Penn State (BCJ@PSUVM)
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Date: 28 September 1989, 13:15:01 EDT
From: RHG at PSUVM
Subject: Re: L-ENGL 1.25: text analysis
I once put together a program I called the Gannon Boredom Scale,
which would, when fed a piece of nonfiction, would give a readout
on a scale of one to one hundred how boring it is. It was in PL/1.
It simply counted such things as sentence length, commas, cliches,
inactive verbs, sentences beginning with "There," and so on--a
total of aboout two dozen, as I remember.
I never quite finished. I lost interest, and other, more sophisticated
programs were coming along.
Somewhere in my archives, however, I still have the original program.
If you want me to send it to you, give me the word.
Rob Gannon
Penn State, University Park
PA 16802
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 16:38 EST
From: krovetz@UMass
Subject: morphological analyzer for English
Professor Choueka recently asked about the availability of morphological
analyzers for English. There is one that is part of the Alvey toolkit,
which also includes a GPSG parser, grammar, and lexicon. The toolkit
is written in Common Lisp and costs 500 pounds for academic use. The
following article describes the morphology component:
Ritchie G., Pulman S., Black A., and Russell G., ``A Computational
Framework for Lexical Description'', Computational Linguistics,
Vol. 13, No. 3-4, 1987
You can obtain more information and an application form by writing to:
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
U.K.
ph. 44-031-225 4464
-bob
krovetz@cs.umass.edu