To facilitate systemic functional research, we, the Systemic Meaning Modelling Group (SMMG), have been developing computational tools for managing linguistic systems, analysing texts, and extracting linguistic patterns from a larage corpus of text. These tools are enclosed in SysAm, so called because it is an amanuensis in doing systemic research. SysAm is organized on the basis of the dimension of systemic theory and system meta-theory. It is concerned with both the overall lexicogrammatical system of a language and particular texts instantiating that system.
SysAm comprises of five subsystems: SysFan, SysRef, SysConc, SysGraph, and SysGloss, and all of them are interrelated with one another. The functions of these systems are explained below.
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SysAm |
SysRef 1.0 |
A tool for managing and developing accounts of lexicogrammatical and semantic systems. It is to serve as a new generation of computational systemic reference grammar. | Shunt between systemic potential and
textual instance, either retrieving examples of systemic
categories from text or accessing those categories from
text examples. Learn about categories of the system from copious examples drawn from text corpora. Generate probability profiles of systems based on accumulated text examples. Extract parts of the overall potential according to different contexts of use (registerial sub-potential). Explore the description of the system using the function-rank matrix as a global map and increasing or descreasing the delicacy of the description whenever required. |
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SysFan 2.5 |
A tool for lexicogrammatical text analysis. It is analysis interface of SysRef. | Analyse texts lexicogrammatically by
making selections from menus or from networks. Search the analysis results for multimodal presentations like tables, graphics or images. |
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SysConc 1.2.1 |
A tool for extracting linguistic paterns from a large corpus of texts. | Search for specific lexical items, or
collacational patterns, or a group of items of any
semantic type set by the user. Display the search results in a list so that a larger context for a certain item can be obtained once required by the user. Show the statistical results for the words around the searched items, demonstrating them in a bar graph format and their collocations in a hierarchical pattern. |
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SysGraph 1.1 |
A tool for graphing systemic networks. | Automatically generate system networks of
any language given the systemic features in a designed
format. Export the network to word processors like Microsoft Word, Canvas, etc. |
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SysGloss 1.0 |
A multilingual glossary of systemic functional linguistic terms. | Easily find a linguistic term with explanations, examples as well as references. | Windows Macintosh |
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Multex 2.0 |
Multex is a high-performance multilingual
and multimodal text planner. |
Multex 2.0 is an integrated environment for testing out text planning process, and for visually developing grammar. Many new exciting features have been implemented in this new version. |
Application Multex demo |
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Virtual Ling 900 |
An interactive learning facility. | Course Demo |
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