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Copyright © 1997-1998 Marshall R. Mayberry, III

The MIR Sentence Processing package contains the C source code for the MIR 
system, as well as a selection of scripts with the relevant training and 
testing data.  MIR has been designed for rapid prototyping of typical 
architectures used in NLP research such as SRN and SOM which depend heavily 
on (one or more) lexicons, and can be easily extended to handle any other
algorithms the user may be interested in.  Because of the emphasis on rapid 
prototyping, the package is written in C using the TCL/TK libraries.  
Provided a number of basic commands and widgets, the user can quickly set up 
networks to test and train a variety of architectures.  The use of the TCL 
scripting language extends the facility with which experiments can be run 
once an architecture has been designed, as well as manipulating and 
displaying interesting aspects of the design.  TK provides the means to 
develop a graphical interface for purposes of visualizing not just the
network and its components, but its dynamics as well.  The TCL/TK
extension BLT has proved very useful for this purpose.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope
that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the
implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.

We hope that this software will be a useful starting point for your own
explorations in connectionist NLP. The software is provided as is,
however, we will do our best to maintain it and accommodate
suggestions. If you want to be notified of future releases of the
software or have questions, comments, bug reports or suggestions, send
email to martym@cs.utexas.edu.

Getting the software
--------------------

The Mir package can be obtained from
  ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/neural-nets/software/mir1.0.tar.gz
or by visiting the UTCS Neural Networks page
  http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/pages/software/abstracts.html#mir
which also features a demo of the sardsrn.tcl script.  This would be
useful for getting a general idea of how the software is meant to work.

MIR has been compiled and tested on
* RedHat Linux 4.2
* Sun Sparc (SunOS 5.5) Solaris 2.5

If your platform is not one of those listed above, you should still be
able to build the package with minimal effort.  In general, you will
need X11R6 and an ANSI C compiler.

First of all, uncompress and untar the distribution file:

              tar zxvf mir1.0.tar.gz

in the directory from which you wish to run the software (usually your
own or /usr/local).  This will create a directory having the following
structure:

                           mir
                            |
                 -------------------------
                 |          |            |
              scripts   experiments     src
                            |
             --------------------------------------
             |          |        |        |       |
         sardsraam   sardsrn  semflip  specraam  srn


Versions
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v0.5  9/03/98 martym
v1.0 10/27/98 martym