
version 3.1 -- Aug 1992

This directory (and sub-directories) contain the Cambridge Edinburgh
Morphological Analyser and Dictionary System.

    Copyright Graeme Ritchie, Steve Pulman, Graham Russell and
                         Alan Black    1987

The system is written in Franz lisp (opus 38.79 or later) but has been
ported and is now primarily used within Common LISP.  It offers a
dictionary system suitable for use in a natural language parsing
system.  In addition to the basic dictionary a morphological analysis
system can be used to cope with inflections and derivations of words
in the lexicon.

The system allows the user to write dictionaries and analysers of  
their choice (or language), but an example of (British) English is
included.

For details of the system and its implementation see "Dictionary and 
Morphological Analyser User Guide", distributed with the system.

See the User Manual section 9 for details of installation

There are two basic choices of unification in the system - 
unrestricted or term unification see user manual for details 

Verision 3.1 is a minor change to version 3.0 to fix some bugs.
The manuals are still at version 3.0 but no significant changes
have been made.

INSTALATION:

The system has been tested in a number of Common LISP systems (though
primarily it has been run in Austin Kyoto Common LISP).  To compile
the lisp code cd to the common/ directory and see the README there.


DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

MAP3.1/src
     lisp source code for analyser

MAP3.1/common
     common lisp specific code

MAP3.1/man
     manual pages for UNIX level commands

MAP3.1/doc
     user manual
     system description

MAP3.1/examples/GPSG
     example lexicon and analyser files for a 6800 morpheme dictionary 
     for (British) English.  The basic files are bigspelling.sp (spelling
     rules), bigwordgram.gr (a word grammar), bigwordlist.le (the lexical
     entries) - though these files include others.  This is basic on
     a GPSG framework

MAP3.1/examples/Simple
     example desciption very much simpler than the GPSG one.  It is
     described in more detail in the file simple.doc

MAP3.1/examples
     contains two small examples of dictionaries and analysers.  "test"
     is from the user manual and "tu" is a term unification one.


Comments, problems questions etc. may be addressed to 

Alan W Black                          
Centre for Cognitive Science          
University of Edinburgh               
1-13 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK
email: awb@ed.ac.uk
