Systemic Software

Coding Programs

Name	Author	Description
Systemic Coder	Mick O'Donnell	A tool that facilitates the linguistic coding of text. The user is prompted to categorise each text segment in terms of a system network, which the user provides. The tool provides an interface for easy segmentation, and another for graphical construction/editing of the system network. The Review interface allows you to retrieve all segments which have a given feature or logical combination of features. The statistical interface provides descriptive statistics on your codings, or statistical comparisons between subsets of the codings. Codings can also be exported in a form readable by statistical packages Available for immediate download. Platform: Windows (except 3.1), Macintosh, Linux/Unix. Cost: Free. Website: http://www.wagsoft.com/Coder/index.html
SysFan	Christian Matthiessen, Canzhong Wu	Description: SysFan is a computational tool that facilitates the systemic-functional analysis of texts. SysFan allows you to analyse the texts lexicogrammatically by making selections from menus, fields or networks, and saves the records into a database, which can then be browsed, modified or searched. The search results can be statistically displayed or exported to those in a form compatible to statistical packages such as MS Word, or Microsoft Excel. Platforms: Macintosh only. Cost: Free. Website: http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/Resources/AnalysisTools/Tools.htm
Systemics	Kevin Judd, Kay O'Halloran	Description: Systemics is designed to allow efficient and comprehensive discourse analysis of text from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Systemics is designed to be used for both academic and postgraduate research and also for the teaching of SFL in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. However, as the pre-programmed grammar in Systemics can be modified, the discourse analysis undertaken with this software can incorporate other theoretical perspectives. Platforms: All platforms. Available: From March 2002. Cost: To be announced. Website: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellkoh/Overview.html Contact: Email Kay O'Halloran ellkoh@nus.edu.sg.
RSTTool	Mick O'Donnell	Description: A tool for marking up the rhetorical structure of texts, graphically (in terms of Mann, Thompson and Matthiessen's RST theory). Simple statistics about the use of the relations in the text can be obtained. You can use the Mann & Thompson set of relations, or make your own. Platforms: All platforms. Cost: Free. Website: http://www.wagsoft.com/RSTTool/index.html
Grammar Explorer	John Bateman	Description: A tool for coding text examples, or for exploring KPML grammars. One can type in individual sentences, or specify a text file to load, with segment boundaries indicated. Results can be saved for later processing. One can use either an existing KPML (see below) grammar, or write your own. Platforms: Windows, Linux/Unix (On Linux/Unix requires Franz Allegro Common Lisp (4.3 or better) and the Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM 2.0 or better) are required to compile and run this source) Cost: Free. Website: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/kpml/tools/grexplorer/grexplorer.htm

Text Generation Systems

Name	Author	Description
KPML	John Bateman, Others	Description: KPML is a Systemic Text Generation system and grammar development environment. It is an extension on the Penman text generation syste, developed at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in Los Angeles (principal architects Bill Mann and Christian Matthiessen). John Bateman took over the system in the early 90s, and extended it to be multilingual, and has vastely improved the grammar editing environment. Grammars have been developed for German (Elke Teich, Brigite Brote, ...), Dutch, etc. KPML offers sentence generation from a semantic input (SPLs). Graphing of system networks, systemic structures, etc. Can handle multiple grammars simultaneously. Platform: Unix, Linux, Windows. Cost: Free. Web Page: http://purl.org/net/kpml
WAG	Mick O'Donnell	Description: WAG (Workbench for Analysis and Generation) is a system for generating sentences from a semantic specification. WAG was a re-engineering of the Penman system, improving some of the problems in that system (for instance, declarative inter-stratal mapping). WAG includes its own knowledge representation engine, similar to LOOM, that used in Penman, but more systemic-based. WAG has been used for grammars in English, Spanish, Italian and Greek, although only on a small scale (however, KPML offers much more in regards to multilingual processing). WAG forms the core of the ILEX system, both for KR and sentence generation. It was also originally the core of the M-Piro system, until replaced by a re-implementation of WAG into Java by Jo Calder. WAG is not currently maintained for release, but may be released in the future, when the authore gets some free time. Availability: Awaiting update... Platform: Unix, Linux, Windows. Web Page: http://www.wagsoft.com/wag.html
Multex 2.0	Systemic Meaning Modelling Group	Description: Multex is a high-performance multilingual and multimodal text planner. Multex 2.0 is an integrated environment for testing out text planning process, and for visually developing grammar. Many new exciting features have been implemented in this new version. Platform: Macintosh. Availability: ?? Web Page: http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/ModellingGroup/Research/Multex/Doc/DomainModel/DomainModelDoc.htm
Communal	Robin Fawcett, Gordon Tucker, Others	Description:The Computational Linguistics Unit, Cardiff University have developed a sentence generation system called Communal. It doesn't generate from semantic input, but rather requires the user to traverse the system network, choosing a feature at each point. Large semantic-oriented network, called Genesys For More Information: fawcett@cardiff.ac.uk, tuckerg@cardiff.ac.uk
FUF	Michael Elhadad	Description: FUF is a generalised unification tool. For text generation, it uses the SURGE grammar (Systemic Unification Realization Grammar of English), which is a mixture of Halliday and HPSG. Platform: ?? Availability: ?? Web Page: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/research/projects/surge/index.htm

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