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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="../compiler.html">Services</a></li><li><b>words</b></li></ul>
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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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<p class="sectionentry"><a href="P-wtmd.html">
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<spon class="sectiontitle">What This Module Does</span></a> -
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<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> -
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<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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<p class="chapterentry"><a name="1"></a>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Setting Up</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Building on the foundation module.</p>
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<p class="sectionentry"><a href="1-wm.html">
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Words Module</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Setting up the use of this module.</span></p>
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<p class="chapterentry"><a name="2"></a>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 2: Words in Isolation</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Recognising different words, and storing phrases made of them.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Vocabulary</span></a> -
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<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> -
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<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> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Some utilities for handling single words referred to by number.</span></p>
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<p class="chapterentry"><a name="3"></a>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 3: Words in Sequence</span></p>
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<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> -
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<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> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage contiguous word ranges.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Text From Files</span></a> -
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<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> -
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<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">Nonterminals</span></a> -
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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> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To read in structural definitions of natural language written in the meta-language Preform.</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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<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 work out bitmaps of nonterminal incidences in grammar.</span></p>
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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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<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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<span class="sectionpurpose">Other uses for Preform grammar, including the generation of adaptive text, and word inflection.</span></p>
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