LING/CSE 472 Software

In this class, we will be using Perl, the LKB grammar development environment, and xfst. All of these are installed on the machines in the LLC and the linguistics Treehouse for our use. You are not required to install them on your personal computer. However, since folks sometimes want to, here is some info:

• Perl: First check whether you already have Perl on the machine you are considering installing it on. On a linux/unix machine (including macs running OS X), type "which perl" at the command prompt. If you don't have it, you can get it here. You also have access to Perl on Dante. If you've never logged in to dante directly, you may need to change the settings for your UWNetID here: If you want to do more Perl programming, you probably should use an editor which understands Perl syntax and will indent things properly for you. Emacs is one, and it is available on Dante. You can get emacs for Windows (for free) here. DzSoft makes a shareware Perl editor. (NB - I've never used it, and so don't know how useful it is.) Finally, here is a quick reference guide to Perl.
• LKB: The LKB (Copestake 2002) is available here. If you want to use the LKB with emacs (can be handy), follow the directions from last Spring's linguistics 471.
• xfst: xfst is not freely available. All copies of Beesley & Karttunen's 2003 book come with a single-user license.