ReadMe 6-May-91

This is the beta test release of KTEXT, a morphological parser that
processes text. KTEXT is intended to be used with PC-KIMMO (though it 
is a stand-alone program). PC-KIMMO is a program for doing computational 
phonology and morphology. It is typically used to build morphological 
parsers for natural language processing systems. PC-KIMMO is described 
in the book "PC-KIMMO: a two-level processor for morphological analysis" 
by Evan L. Antworth, published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (1990).
The PC- KIMMO software is available for MS-DOS (IBM PCs and
compatibles), Macintosh, and UNIX. The book (including software) is
available for $23.00 (plus postage) from:

    International Academic Bookstore
    7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
    Dallas TX, 75236
    U.S.A.

    phone  214/709-2404
    fax    214/709-2433

PC-KIMMO (the IBM version) is available from SIMTEL20 
(wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]) as 
PD1:<MSDOS.EDUCATION>PCKIMMO.ZIP. The Macintosh version of PC-KIMMO
is available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] as
/info-mac/app/pc-kimmo.hqx.

The KTEXT program will be of very little use to you without the PC-KIMMO 
program and book.

This software release should contain the following items:

  KTEXT program
  CED program (not available for Macintosh)
  KTEXT User's Guide
  ReadMe file
  English subdirectory
  Tagalog subdirectory

The user's guide is a plain text file, though it does contain a few eight-bit
accented characters.

There are two samples provided, one for English and one for Tagalog.
To run KTEXT on the English sample, type:

  ktext -w -x english.ctl -i alice.txt -o alice.ana

To run KTEXT on the Tagalog sample, type:

  ktext -w -x tag.ctl -i tag.txt -o tag.ana

I would like to hear your reactions to KTEXT, both pro and con.

Evan Antworth
Academic Computing Department
Summer Institute of Linguistics
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
U.S.A.

phone   214/709-2418
e-mail  evan@txsil.lonestar.org
