From: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de (The Software Registry)

                 NATURAL LANGUAGE SOFTWARE REGISTRY

There are now many natural language software projects, both commercial
and noncommercial.  In order to facilitate the exchange and evaluation
of software, the Natural Language Software Registry is cataloging
projects for the community. The current version includes 

+ speech signal processors, such as the Computerized Speech Lab 
	(Kay Elemetrics)
+ morphological analyzers, such as PC-KIMMO 
	(Summer Institute for Linguistics)
+ parsers, such as Alveytools (University of Edinburgh)
+ semantic and pragmatic analyzer, such as NLL
        (University of Saarbruecken)
+ generation programs, such as FUF
        (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
+ knowledge representation systems, such as Rhet 
	(University of Rochester)
+ multicomponent systems, such as ELU (ISSCO), PENMAN (ISI), 
	Pundit (UNISYS), SNePS (SUNY Buffalo),
+ NLP-Tools, such as GULP (University of Georgia) or Linguist
        (Kansai Research Laboratory)
+ applications programs (misc.)


If you have developed a piece of software for natural language
processing that other researchers might find useful, you can include it
by returning the description form below. If you are willing to have your 
software reviewed, please send us a version along with this form. We are 
also interested in reports and documentation, even for software not 
reviewed.  

Anyone wishing to obtain the document or the questionnaire is invited to
contact one of the following addresses:

                   
Ftp-Serer: 

           Germany: ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de (134.96.188.252)
                    (directory: pub/registry, user name: anonymous)
        
           USA:     crlftp.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.33)
                    (directory: pub/non-lexical/NL_Software_Registry,
                    user name: anonymous)      
                 
                    dri.cornell.edu (128.84.180.39)
                    (directory: /pub/Natural_Language_Software_Registry
                    or /pub/NLSR, user name: anonymous)

           UK:      svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk(129.169.24.20)
                    (directory: /pub/comp.speech/info/
                                 NaturalLanguageSoftwareRegistry,
                     user name: anonymous)     

WWW-Server: 

            Germany: http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/cl/registry/draft.html



 e-mail: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de
   post: Natural Language Software Registry
         Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
         Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
         D-66123 Saarbruecken
         Germany

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to drop us an email 
message.


Christoph Jung, Markus Vonerden 


                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.

Give your answers between the brackets [[ ]], replacing
the default-strings written in them.

If there are three dots "...", your answer could be
a free structured, multi-line ASCII-text.

If the string "+/-" occurs, please decide wether your
answer is positive ("+") or negative ("-").

You are free not to answer a certain question. To do that,
delete the default string and write NOTHING between the brackets.

Special signs are prefered to be in TeX-notation. If you don't know
how to do that, don't worry and write them in your prefered
mode.

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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}
        **TEST_GENERATION[[ +/- ]]
        **MACHINE_TRANSLATION[[ +/- ]]
        **TEXT_PROOFING[[ +/- ]]
        **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.



        Sincerely,

        Christoph Jung, Markus Vonerden 


        Natural Language Software Registry
        Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
        Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
        D-66123 Saarbruecken
        Germany

        phone: +49 (681) 303-5282
        e-mail: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de