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%   (C)1992 Institute for New Generation Computer Technology 
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ICOT Free Software  No.36

	 A Sentence Retrieval Tool: KWIC-ESP
		1992.8 Release Ver.1
		1993.3 Release Ver.2

1. Abstract

As a structured keyword allows grammatical information, e.g.
'(NINGEN) "GA" (BASHO) "DE" ... "SURU"', KWIC can collect various
language phenomena. KWIC is a useful tool for developing dictionaries
 and grammars for NLP systems.

*Structured keyword (Surface, Category, Inflection, Semantic feature, etc)
*Japanese Text database (7 texts, 1300 sentences)
*Keyword management, Re-search, Sampling search, Set operation
*Sorting display, Centering display, Detailed display


2. Environment

  (1) Hardware and OS

	SUN-4
	SunOS4.03 or above

  (2) Memory and Disk

	Memory  40MB include swap area

        Disk    10MB
		(without your own database files)

  (3) Software

	CommonESP 3.3
	GNU emacs 18.53 or above
	nemacs 3.0 or above
	Openware/Motif 2.0.7

3. Version up infomation (Ver.2 1993.3)

	There are some improvements in this version,as follows.

	(1) Text data converter is now available.

	   To build a kwic database, you must convert data from plain
	text format to the CIL format. This version contains the
	converter program.

	(2) Building kwic database requires less memory.

	(3) GUI (Graphical User Interface) in the X window system
	becomes faster.


4. Contents
kwic-cesp/
       COPYRIGHT		copyright information (in English)
       COPYRIGHT.j		copyright information (in Japanese)
       INSTALL			install information (in English)
       INSTALL.j		install information (in Japanese)
       README			short introduction (in English)
       README.j			short introduction (in Japanese)
       kwic_install.tar		source programs (in Japanese, EUC
				Kanji-code, compiled with tar command)
				To see the contents, read INSTALL.
