
                NATURAL LANGUAGE SOFTWARE REGISTRY
                          QUESTIONNAIRE
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0. Note
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This questionnaire is designed to be evaluated
automatically. Therefore there are several (hopefully easy) 
restrictions in filling the form. 

Upper-case-Strings with two stars are key-words needed
by the analyzing scripts. Please don't delete them.

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the default-strings written in them.

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1. general questions
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1.1 name of your system

        **NAME[[ ... ]]

1.2 licence

        **RESEARCH[[ +/- ]]
        **COMMERCIAL[[ +/- ]]

1.3 authors     {people responsible for program design and implementation}

        **AUTHORS[[ ... ]]

1.4 person to contact   {person who distributes the software}

        **CONTACT_NAME[[ ... ]]
        
        **CONTACT_INSTITUTION[[ ... ]]
        
        **CONTACT_DEPARTMENT[[ ... ]]
        
        **CONTACT_STREET[[ ... ]]
        
        **CONTACT_CITY[[ ... ]]
        
        **CONTACT_COUNTRY[[ ... ]] 

        **CONACT_PHONE[[ ... ]]         {with Zip & access code}
                      
        **CONTACT_EMAIL[[ ... ]]        {Internet electronic
                                         mail address & network}

1.5 status      {current level of your system}

        1.5.1 coverage level    {rough estimate of the scale
                                 of the project}

                **DEMONSTRATION[[ +/- ]]
                **SMALL_RESEARCH[[ +/- ]]
                **LARGE_RESEARCH[[ +/- ]]
                **PRODUCTION_QUALITY[[ +/- ]]
                **HIGH_VOLUME[[ +/- ]]

        1.5.2 is there a stable version of the system ?

                **STABLE[[ +/- ]]

        1.5.3 is there continuing development ?

                **CONTINUING_DEVELOPMENT[[ +/- ]]

        1.5.4 examples    {number and type of examples on 
                           which the system was tested}

                1.5.4.1 example type
                
                        **WORDS[[ +/- ]]
                        **SENTENCES[[ +/- ]]
                        **PARAGRAPHS[[ +/- ]]
                        **OTHER_TYPES[[ ... ]]
                
                1.5.4.2 number of examples processed successfully 
                                                (as a power of 10)
                
                        **SUCCESSFUL_EXAMPLES[[ ... ]]


1.6 support     {which services are available to users}

        **UPGRADES[[ +/- ]]
        **SOURCE_CODE[[ +/- ]]
        **CONSULTING[[ +/- ]]
        **OTHER_SUPPORT[[ ... ]]

1.7 format for software distribution
        **DISK[[ +/- ]]
        **FTP[[ +/- ]]
                **WHICH_FTP_SITE[[ ... ]]    {Internet address of the ftp-site}
        **TAPE[[ +/- ]]
        **OTHER_FORMAT[[ +/- ]]

1.8 price       {distribution costs}
        
        **PRICE[[ ... ]]

1.9 restrictions on use         {legal obligation of the user}
        
        **RESTRICTIONS[[ ... ]]

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2. type of system
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2.1 primary task of system      {primary activity for which the system 
                                 was designed }

        **LINGUISTIC_ANALYSIS[[ +/- ]]
        **TEST_OF_LINGUISTIC_THEORY[[ +/- ]]
                **WHICH_LINGUISTIC_THEORY[[ ... ]]      {which theory is 
                                                         tested}
        **TEXT_GENERATION[[ +/- ]]
        **MACHINE_TRANSLATION[[ +/- ]]
        **TEXT_PROOVING[[ +/- ]]
        **DATABASE_INTERFACE[[ +/- ]]
        **OTHER_TASKS[[ ... ]]

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3. detailed questions
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3.1 description         {a free text describing the program}

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

        **DESCRIPTION[[ ... ]]

3.2 program

        3.2.1 programming language

                **PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE[[ ... ]]]

        3.2.2 platform  {software or hardware required to run the program -
                         such as a particular operating system}

                **PLATFORM[[ ... ]]     

        3.2.3 lines of source code
 
                **LINES_OF_SOURCE_CODE[[ ... ]]

        3.2.4 kilobytes of executable

                **KILO_OF_EXECUTABLE[[ ... ]]     

        3.2.5 program components        {major modules}

                **PHONOLOGICAL_ANALYZER/GENERATOR[[ +/- ]]
                **MORPHOLOGICAL_ANALYZER/GENERATOR[[ +/- ]]
                **PARSER/GENERATOR[[ +/- ]]
                **SEMANTIC_INTERPRETER[[ +/- ]]
                **KNOWLEDGE_REPRESENTATION[[ +/- ]]
                **DISCOURSE_STRUCTURE[[ +/- ]]
                **PRAGMATIC_FEATURES[[ +/- ]]
                **OTHER_COMPONENTS[[ ... ]]

        3.2.6 program extensible by     {augmentation of algorithms}

                **THE_DEVELOPER[[ +/- ]]
                **THE_COMPUTATIONAL_LINGUIST[[ +/- ]]
                **THE_LINGUIST[[ +/- ]]
                **THE_PROGRAMMER[[ +/- ]]
                **THE_EXPERIENCED_USER[[ +/- ]]
                **THE_NEW_USER[[ +/- ]]
        
        3.2.7 Which components are available independently ? 
             
                **MODULARITY[[ ... ]]

3.3 data

        3.3.1 data components 
        
        {give count, language and features, like:
         
         120,000 entry wordlist for French
         5,000 word LFG lexicon Swahili w/ affixes, English gloss
         15 rule TG for Dutch cross-serial dependencies
         200 node knowledge base for AIDS case histories 
                                    w/ 10 30-node cases.}

                **DATA_COMPONENTS[[ ... ]]      

        3.3.2 data components extensible by     {augmentation of data}
                
                **D_THE_DEVELOPER[[ +/- ]]
                **D_THE_COMPUTATIONAL_LINGUIST[[ +/- ]]
                **D_THE_LINGUIST[[ +/- ]]
                **D_THE_PROGRAMMER[[ +/- ]]
                **D_THE_EXPERIENCED_USER[[ +/- ]]
                **D_THE_NEW_USER[[ +/- ]]

        3.3.3 Which data components are independent of program ?
                
                **D_MODULARITY[[ ... ]]

        3.3.4 character set used for language data

                **PROGRAMMABLE[[ +/- ]]
                        **WHICH_PROGRAMMABLE[[ ... ]]
                **FIXED_16BIT_UNICODE[[ +/- ]]
                **FIXED_8BIT_ISO[[ +/- ]]
                        **WHICH_FIXED_8BIT_ISO[[ ... ]]
                **PROPRIETARY_ASCII[[ +/- ]]
                **FIXED_7BIT_ISO[[ +/- ]]
                        **WHICH_FIXED_7BIT_ISO[[ ... ]]
                **EXTENDED_ASCII[[ +/- ]]
                        **WHICH_EXTENDED_ASCII[[ ... ]]
                **OTHER_CHARACTER_SETS[[ ... ]]

3.4 languages
  
        3.4.1 current languages {languages for which lexicons or
                                 grammars are supplied, or to which the
                                 algorithms are applicable}

                **CURRENT_LANGUAGES[[ ... ]]

        3.4.2 range of applicable natural languages     {which
                                                         other natural
                                                         languages can
                                                         be substituted}
               
                **RANGE_OF_NATURAL_LANGUAGES[[ ... ]]   { give theoretical 
                                                          or technical limits }
                                                         

3.6 man years of work
      
        **MAN_YEARS_OF_WORK[[ ... ]]
        
3.7 documentation       {manuals and research reports}

        3.7.1 list documents in which the software is described

                **DOCUMENTATION[[ ... ]]

        3.7.2 user documentation

                **USER_DOCUMENTATION[[ ... ]]

        3.7.3 system documentation

                **SYSTEM_DOCUMENTATION[[ ... ]]


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5. Note
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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.







