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; This is the initialisation file for Lexa Demo. It contains information on
; 3 parameters for up to 8 demo files.
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;	(i)	Title of programme
;	(ii)	DOS programme name
;	(iii)	6 lines of prompt text for display on desktop
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; 1: Title
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 Demo No. 1
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; 1: DOS name
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DEMO_01
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; 1: Lines of prompt text (6)
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Executes the main programme in the batch
mode and analyses the sample text from
Beowulf in a variety of ways. The output
files can be examined with Lexa Text which
is subsequently loaded.

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; 2: Title
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 Demo No. 2
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; 2: DOS name
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DEMO_02
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; 2: Lines of prompt text (6)
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Runs Lexa like the previous option but
this time the excerpt from Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales is analysed. As in the
previous case several output files are
written to disk for later examination.

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; 3: Title
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 Demo No. 3
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; 3: DOS name
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DEMO_03
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; 3: Lines of prompt text (6)
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Here the word index programme Lexa Words
is initialised and loaded. If you choose
the first option and the text BEOWULF.TXX
then you can view a word list via F10 and
search for any item in the chosen text.

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; 4: Title
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 Demo No. 4
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; 4: DOS name
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DEMO_04
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; 4: Lines of prompt text (6)
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Here the information retrieval programme
Lexa Pat is loaded. Selecting the last op-
tion in the first menu causes a search for
all instances of third person pronouns in
the Beowulf text. The results are written
to the file BEOWULF.OUT.
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; 5: Title
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 Demo No. 5
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; 5: DOS name
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DEMO_05
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; 5: Lines of prompt text (6)
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This time Lexa Pat is initialised for the
analysis of the Joyce text supplied with
Lexa. Carrying out a search leads to Lexa
Pat finding all instances of conjunctions
in this part of Molly Bloom's soliloquy.

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; 6: Title
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 Demo No. 6
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; 6: DOS name
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DEMO_06
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; 6: Lines of prompt text (6)
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To locate syntactic contexts one uses the
programme Lexa Context which is now loaded
and which examines the supplied Synge text
for examples of an Irish English aspectual
construction. The results are written to a
file SYNGE.OUT.
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; 7: Title
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 Demo No. 7
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; 7: DOS name
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DEMO_07
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; 7: Lines of prompt text (6)
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The database of lexical information which
is generated by Demo 1 can be viewed and/
or processed with the current option. To
appreciate the options of the programme,
take a look at the menu system which can
be activated via Shift-Tab.
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; 8: Title
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 Demo No. 8
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; 8: DOS name
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DEMO_08
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; 8: Lines of prompt text (6)
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Here the database created during Demo 2
is loaded for examination and processing.
Note that many options of the programme
are available from the desktop of the
database manager to which you return on
pressing Alt-F7.
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; 9: Title
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 Demo No. 9
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; 9: DOS name
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DEMO_09
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; 9: Lines of prompt text (6)
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To illustrate how normalisation of texts
can be achieved this demo executes DbTrans
which substitutes different variants in a
sample text by a series of standard forms.
This small run is just an illustration of
what one can realise with the programme.
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; 10: Title
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 Demo No. 10
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; 10: DOS name
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DEMO_10
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; 10: Lines of prompt text (6)
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Here the Corpus Manager is initialised for
use with the text database of Middle Eng-
lish letters which is supplied with Lexa.
Just select the first option in the first
menu to starting viewing the texts. You
can search for terms in various ways.
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; End of initialisation file for Lexa Demo
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