4.0266 Linguistic Software Registry (1/123)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 11 Jul 90 16:32:00 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0266. Wednesday, 11 Jul 1990.

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 90 12:37:07 CDT
From: Computational Linguists <registry@tira.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Linguistic Software Registry


NATURAL LANGUAGE SOFTWARE REGISTRY

There are now many natural language software projects, both commercial
and noncommercial. In order to facilitate the exchange and evaluation
of software, the University of Chicago's Center for Information and
Language Studies is undertaking to catalog projects for the community.
If you have developed a piece of software for natural language
processing that other researchers might find useful, you can help
us by describing it below. An electronic version of the form is preferred;
it is available by anonymous ftp to tira.uchicago.edu. Feel free to
write up software that is useful to you, even if you are not the
originator. Although the registry will be an ongoing project, we ask
that you please return the form by July 30 for existing software.
Results will be made available in this forum.

Elizabeth Hinkelman, for CILS (registry@tira.uchicago.edu)


Name:
Person to contact for software (if different):
Institution:
Department:
Street:
City/State/Zip:
Country:
Phone (with country & area codes):
Email network & address:

Name of system:

Type of system:
commercial product
research system
other (specify)

Application:
machine translation
database interface
parsing
generation
understanding
other (specify)

Components:
phonological analyzer/generator
morphological analyzer/generator
parser/generator
semantic interpreter
knowledge representation
discourse structure
pragmatic features
other (specify)

Are the components available as independent modules, or firmly embedded?



Can they be extended easily, under certain conditions, or with difficulty?




Size of system:

Programming language:

Operating system or hardware:

Applicable natural language(s):
Can other languages be substituted easily?

Number of examples the system has been tested on:
[Unit: sentences, messages, other (specify)]
1-10 - demonstration system
10-100 - small research system
100-1000 - larger research system
1000-10000 - robust or production quality system

Is the project under development, completed, or ongoing?

Summarize the main goals and ideas. Indicate what makes the project
a useful and interesting tool for research applications.







List documents in which the software is described:



User documentation:

System documentation:

Available support:
none
upgrades
source code
consulting

Format for software distribution:

Cost:

Restrictions on use:

If you are willing to have the software reviewed, please send us
a version along with this information. We are also interested in
reports and documentation, even for software not reviewed.

NL Software Registry
Center for Information and Language Studies
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
registry@tira.uchicago.edu