                          PC-KIMMO News
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                         January 16, 1992

This announcement describes recent developments related to
PC-KIMMO (an implementation for personal computers of Kimmo
Koskenniemi's two-level model of word production and
recognition).

(1) PC-KIMMO version 1.0.6 update

(2) KTEXT 1.0.1 update

(3) 386 versions of PC-KIMMO and KTEXT

(4) Englex, a 20,000-entry English lexicon

(5) Recent publications related to PC-KIMMO


The software described below is made freely available to the
academic community for non-commercial use and redistribution. We
invite your feedback on these programs. Please note that the
software may be packaged in compressed archives: Zip files for
MS-DOS and Stuffit files for Macintosh. (Hint for MS-DOS users:
when you unzip a file, use the -d option to preserve the
subdirectories.) You can obtain any of the software described
below in either of two ways:

  1. Request that we send it to you via e-mail. Be *sure* to
specify which version you want: DOS, Mac, or UNIX. The software
will be sent in encoded form:  uu-encoding for MS-DOS and Binhex
format for Macintosh. Utility programs for handling archives and
encoded files are available from computer bulletin boards or from
your university computing center.

  2. Send a diskette and a self-addressed, stamped diskette
mailer to the address below. Be *sure* to specify which version
you want (DOS, Mac, UNIX) and the disk format.


(1) PC-KIMMO 1.0.6 update

PC-KIMMO version 1.0.6 has been available since November 1991.
There are no functional changes, just a few bug fixes.


(2) KTEXT 1.0.1 update

KTEXT is a text-processing application that uses the PC-KIMMO
parser.  It is available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX.
Version 1.0.1 fixes some bugs, particularly a memory leak.


(3) 386 versions of PC-KIMMO and KTEXT

We have recently succeeded in compiling versions of PC-KIMMO and
KTEXT to take advantage of the 386 CPU in IBM compatible
machines. The main advantage of these 386 versions is that they
will use all available extended/expanded memory and will also use
virtual memory. This means that you can load a lexicon that is
larger than 640K.


(4) Englex

Englex is a new 20,000-entry English lexicon. It supersedes the
toy English lexicon supplies on the PC-KIMMO release disk.
Because it requires about 4.5MB of memory to load, you will need
to run it on a Mac, under Unix, or using the new 386 versions of
PC-KIMMO and KTEXT.


(5) Recent publications related to PC-KIMMO

Sproat, Richard. 1991. Review of "PC-KIMMO:  a two-level
processor for morphological analysis" by Evan L. Antworth.
Computational Linguistics 17.2:229-231.

Miles, Nathan L. 1991. Automatic generation of two-level FSM
tables. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University. [Description of the
KGEN rule compiler.]


Requests for any of the software or articles described above
and/or requests for more information should be sent to:

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

Internet:  evan@.sil.org
phone:     214/709-2418
fax:       214/709-3387
