Quick Start User's Guide - CELTA - Université Paris
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1. ASO outer stage CCS composition of two or more situations into one CMF modification of flow CMI modification of intensity CRE repetition MCP morphological aspectual composition TYP type of situation WHP situation viewed as whole or part 4 Create cards in the Db Builder Each card you create is identified automatically by its number example AD mod 001 The menu of each card contains Tools New Card delete Card export Card Import Card Tree Partial Tree Complete Tree When you click on complete tree the tree of all possible attributes and values will appear for instance you can use it to choose some of its branches to describe the specimen of the given card you are working on When you finish describing a specimen of a given card you can click on Partial Tree to see the tree you have designed to describe this specimen Each file of the db builder contains three fields on the left Original translation and observation In the field original you can edit or paste from a World file a specimen of usage in any language The best way to edit the field original of a card with special non ASCII characters of the language you study is to edit it first in a Word file and then paste it into the field of the db card To describe the specimen of the given card you have to choose among the attributes and values in the field attributes on the right side Attributes Values MRK AMI AMO2. ASI ASO After you have created attributes and values in the Tree Builder Assistant you may just choose the attributes and values necessary to describe the specimen of the given card CAUTION do not create new attributes and values in the db builder but in the Tree Builder Assistant The Menu attributes and values in the db Builder allows you to choose attributes and values that can be used to describe the specimen you are analysing in a given card Click on the attribute its values appear in the right column Select one of these values if it belongs to a mono valued attribute and it will be displayed in the field Attribute values below In order to select more than one value for a multi valued attribute press the control CTRL key when clicking on any value of that attribute In the select window press the control CTRL key on Windows and Apple Key on the Mac When you finish choosing values necessary to describe one specimen you can check the partial tree you have built by clicking on the menu Tree Partial tree on the top of the card ow ap suliaer Tools ext Tree wg rey You get the partial tree corresponding to the specimen of the given card ASPECT ANALYSIS WHOLEPART WHP whole CONTROL REPETITION CRE no MORPH MORPHCOMP MCP impPrf MORPHMARKER MRK ZERO SITTYPE TYP event Each card contains a field index as index you can use a key to classify
3. Caution Save frequently your work with trees choosing the menu File gt Save because when you choose the menu Edit S Undo all your changes made since the last time you saved your tree will be deleted Example of the tree used for Aspect ASPECT ANALYSIS MOMENT AM enter initial exit finish start terminal STAGE AS after before begin end run x WHOLEPART WHP part whole CONTROL COMPOSITE CCS indefinite parallel sequential MODIFICATION FLOW CMF interrupt keep offandon resume stop trans INTENSITY CMI decrease increase strong weak REPETITION CRE defnb indnb no Lines you can see in Tree Editor correspond to paths of the tree hierarchy However their leaves in braces represent Attribute names and their extensions in square brackets represent lists of Attribute Values After collecting a certain number of cards it may happen that you will need to change add some attributes and values You will be able to achieve this using the same procedure 3 Trees their Code and Glossary IMPORTANT In trees different nodes may bear the same duplicate name but this is prohibited as far as attribute names and their value names are concerned The latter must all be different SITUATION 1ARGSTR 1ROLE R active median passive FILLER KIND FK agent figure QUALIA FQ1 hum nHum QUANTA FQn aE aU 2AN
4. MOMENT MINN AMI enter exit finish start ASPECT ANALYSIS MOMENT MOUT AMO initial terminal ASPECT ANALYSIS STAGE SINN ASI begin end run 4 ASPECT ANALYSIS STAGE SOUT ASO before after ASPECT ANALYSIS WHOLEPART WHP part whole ASPECT CONTROL COMPOSITION CCS indefinite parallel sequential ASPECT CONTROL MODIFICATION FLOW CMF interrupt keep offandon resume stop trans ASPECT CONTROL MODIFICATION INTENSITY CMI decrease increase strong w eak ASPECT CONTROL REPETITION CRE defnb indnb no MORPH MORPHCOMP MCP impPrf prfImp prfImpPrf MORPH MORPHMARKER MRK do na nad o od po pod prze przed przy roz u w wspol wy wz z za ZERO AUX POST SITTYPE TYP event ordProcess refProcess state Abbreviated tree ASP ANLS MOM MOMI AMI ent exi fin str ASP ANLS MOM MOMO AMO ini ter ASP ANLS STG SI ASI beg end run ASP ANLS STG SO ASO aft bef ASP ANLS WHP WHP prt wh1l ASP CNTL COMP CCS ind par seq ASP CNTL MOD FLO CMF intr kp offOn res stp trs ASP CNTL MOD INT CMI dec inc stg wea ASP CNTL REP CRE dnb inb no MPH MPCC MCP ip pi pip MPH MPHM MRK do na nad o od po pod prze przed przy roz u w wsp wy w z z za zZ AUX MRK STYP TYP evt oPro rPro sta Attributes and their full names MRK perf aspect morph marker prefix postfix and auxiliary AMI inner moment AMO outer moment ASI inner stage
5. the cards of your file e g in the file of Polish Aspect we use the index perfective or imperfective to identify each specimen as belonging to the class of perfective or 6 imperfective verbs When you click on the left biggest arrow above the field index of a card you obtain the synthetic table view of all attributes used to describe each card These synthetic view allows you to compare the descriptions you have chosen fot different specimens 5 Synthetic Table View of attributes in the db Builder When the first card of Dynamic Database Builder is displayed and under the condition that some data are already described in the database descriptions of all the cards will be synthesized in the table Columns contain the abbreviated names of attributes lines contain the identification names of each card each specimen You have the possibility when clicking either on Full codes Numbers or Index to show in the lines either the identification name of each card either its index or only its number in the file In the columns to see either abbreviated or full names of attributes you must check either Full Names or Abbrev squares In the table you can sort your data lines either by card numbers or by any of the value of attributes If you wish to sort all the line by the values of a particular attribute you must click in the first line of the table on the name of that attribute To go back to the usual order of card num
6. CSTR 1ANCHOR A initial intermediary terminal LOCATION GROUND LG time space QUALIA LO1 big small QUANTA LOn 1E 1lU In the above tree identical duplicate node names are in red QUALITA but attribute names are different FQ1 LQl and their valuses hum nHumjand big small respectively On the right side of the screen of Tree Builder Assistant you find the following buttons EN RE KT On the screen CODE FULL NAME TREES for easy reading and ABBREVIATED TREES for semantic analyses are displayed one after the other CODE of trees has three following sections ASPECT ANALYSIS MOMENT MINN AMI enter exit finish start ASPECT ANALYSIS MOMENT MOUT AMO initial terminal ASPECT ANALYSIS STAGE SINN ASI begin end run ASP ANLS MOM MOMI AMI ent exi fin str ASP ANLS MOM MOMO AMO ini ter ASP ANLS STG SI ASI beg end run AMI inner moment AMO outer moment ASI inner stage FULL NAME TREE S list of branches with Attributes with all their values ASPECT ANALYSIS MOMENT INNER AMI enter initial exit finish start term inal ABBREVIATED TREE S abbreviated list of branches with Attributes with all their values ASP ANLS MOM AMI ent ini exi fin str ter When you click on the button GLOSSARY you can edit natural language definitions Coma is not allowed in definitions Real examples of an abbreviated and full name tree Full name ASPECT ANALYSIS
7. The Semana Platform Quick Start User s Guide Universit Paris Sorbonne CELTA Centre de Linguistique Th orique et Appliqu e Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Maison de la recherche 28 rue Serpente 75006 PARIS celta paris4 sorbonne fr CELTA Sorbonne prepared by H l ne WLODARCZYK 1 Create a database Open the program Semana In order to create a new database you must first edit its name and save it The software suggests that your initials be followed by an abbreviation of the name of the semantic field you are going to study To start a new set of specimens you must enter in the red rectangle a personal code to be used for their identification Choose for instance your initials followed by an abbreviation of the category or the semantic field e g JB semfld JB semfld 0K Cancel D Example AD Mod for Anne Dupont Modality You will get the following display v Fullcode numbers in _ AY CT 63 AD Mod oo1 2 Create attributes in Tree Builder Assistant Before you begin to enter your data into a new database you will first need to go to Tree Builder Assistant in order to create at least one attribute and its values Remember that attributes always belong to hierarchies cf below Click on the Icon Tree Assistant on the palette which is displayed on the left of the screen lien Fe To create add a new attribute press the green button M
8. bers you must go to the menu Tools and select YES in the option Preferences When pressing CNTL key and selecting a card number in the first column of the synthetic table you can have a quick glance at the sample described in the card and its feature structure AUX n nm Str no beg Contents of card number 30 Bez tego pozdychalibySmy z nud w W Gombrowicz Bakakaj MCP orflmpPrf AMI finish CCS indefinite CRE no TYP ordProcess WHP part MRK po 6 Compare Tree Ass lt gt db Builder A device allows to compare the attributes and their values in the Tree Builder Assistant with those used in the data base Before quitting Tree Builder Assistant after having edited a new tree or modified an already existing tree click in the menu File on transfer to db Builder You can also click when beginning to work on a db already containing a tree on Import from db Builder When modifying the tree after each modification use the button designed to compare the attributes of the tree with the attributes used in the db Builder After clicking the following message will appear Identical or Different If it is different you will see the message Then you have to click on different and you ll see two columns comparing attributes and their values in db builder and in tree Assistant If you wish to transfer to the database the attributes which exist only in the tree just cl
9. em reami Choose an action among the blue and green buttons You get the following formula NEWFEATURE ATT vall val2 This formula contains 2 a a name of the first node NEWFEATURE b attribute ATT c values val1 val2 Click on the button Edit node to change the name of the node NEWFEATURE that of the attribute ATT and the values of the latter val1 vai2 Note that you will be able to use values in two ways either with mono valued attributes or with multi valued ones Please refer to the paragraph Create Cards You are not allowed to use dash in the names of nodes attributes and their values Spaces in the names are also forbidden Notice also that gt and are reserved characters for other purposes IMPORTANT When editing a node an attribute or its values you must always press return to enter names you typed Suppose you typed PROPERTY COLOUR BRIGHT PCB red green the first part of it PROPERTY COLOUR BRIGHT represents the meaning of the attribute named pcB which is its abbreviation and red green are its values Attributes pcs are therefore parts paths of Semantic Feature Structures trees because their descriptions meanings are hierarchical If you need more than two values for an attribute you can add them using the button Edit node After each value you must use character in order to separate each value from the previous one
10. ick on the button Accept A message warns you that this will change the attributes in the db according to the Tree Builder Assistant and this change cannot be undone
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