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< p class = "purpose" > A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words. This is version 1.< / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Preliminaries< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > What This Module Does< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > An overview of the words module's role and abilities.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > How To Include This Module< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > What to do to make use of the words module in a new command-line tool.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 1: Setting Up< / span > < / p >
< p class = "chapterpurpose" > Building on the foundation module.< / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Words Module< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Setting up the use of this module.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 2: Words in Isolation< / span > < / p >
< p class = "chapterpurpose" > Recognising different words, and storing phrases made of them.< / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Vocabulary< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To classify the words in the lexical stream, where two different words are considered equivalent if they are unquoted and have the same text, taken case insensitively.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Word Assemblages< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To manage arbitrary assemblies of vocabulary, if a little slowly.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Numbered Words< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Some utilities for handling single words referred to by number.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 3: Words in Sequence< / span > < / p >
< p class = "chapterpurpose" > Reading in arbitrary text and breaking it into a numbered sequence of words.< / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Lexer< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To break down a stream of characters into a numbered sequence of words, literal strings and literal I6 inclusions, removing comments and unnecessary whitespace.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Wordings< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To manage contiguous word ranges.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Text From Files< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > This is where source text is read in, whether from extension files or from the main source text file, and fed into the lexer.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Feeds< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Feeds are conduits for arbitrary text to flow into the lexer, and to be converted into wordings.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Identifiers< / span > < / a > -
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To summarise wordings into alphanumeric identifiers of the kind used by standard programming languages.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 4: Parsing< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > About Preform< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > A brief guide to Preform and how to use it.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > The angle-bracketed terms appearing in Preform grammar.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Loading Preform< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To read in structural definitions of natural language written in the meta-language Preform.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > The Optimiser< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To precalculate data which enables rapid parsing of source text against a Preform grammar.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To precalculate data which enables rapid parsing of source text against a Preform grammar.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Nonterminal Incidences< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To work out bitmaps of nonterminal incidences in grammar.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Preform< / span > < / a > -
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To parse the word stream against a general grammar defined by Preform.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Basic Nonterminals< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > A handful of bare minimum Preform syntax.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To provide debugging and tuning data on the Preform parser's performance.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Preform Utilities< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Other uses for Preform grammar, including the generation of adaptive text, and word inflection.< / span > < / p >
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