Software installed on Patas

This is not a complete list of every piece of software; for example, it doesn't include many of the standard packages that ship with Red Hat. This is mainly meant to be a listing of software of particular interest to linguists.

This page under heavy construction.

Editors:

Name	Installation path	Run as	Notes
Emacs 22	/opt/emacs22/	emacs
Emacs 21	system default	emacs-21.4
Katoob	/opt/katoob/	katoob	Arabic bidirectional editor. Requires X forwarding.
Nano	system default	nano
Vim	system default	vim

Linguistics software:

Note: Some of this software was copied over from pongo and has not been tested on patas. If you find something that doesn't work, please email linghelp@u.

Name	Installation path	Purpose
Cluto 2.1.1	/opt/cluto-2.1.1/	"a software package for clustering low- and high-dimensional datasets and for analyzing the characteristics of the various clusters."
fsm-4.0	/opt/fsm-4.0/	Tools to construct and work with weighted finite-state machines.
GIZA++ 2001-01-30	/opt/GIZA++/	Training of statistical translation models
Mallet 0.4	/NLP_TOOLS/tool_sets/mallet/v0.4/mallet-0.4/	"MALLET is an integrated collection of Java code useful for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text."
SRILM 1.5.2	/opt/srilm-1.5.2/	"a toolkit for building and applying statistical language models"
Stanford NLP 1.6	/NLP_TOOLS/parsers/stanford_parser/latest/	"a Java implementation of probabilistic natural language parsers"
WordNet 2.1	/opt/WordNet-2.1/	Lexical database of English
Xerox Finite-State Tools	/opt/xerox-tools/

Perl modules:

Name	Purpose
Lingua::Stem	Stems words to their root form.
Plucene	Perl port of the Lucene search engine.
Text::Levenshtein	Levenshtein edit distance
Text::Similarity	Supermodule for a class of modules for measuring the similarity of text documents.
WordNet::QueryData	Direct perl interface to WordNet database.
WordNet::Similarity	Implements a variety of semantic similarity and relatedness measures based on information found in the lexical database WordNet.

Python modules:

Name	Purpose
NTLK	"NLTK — the Natural Language Toolkit — is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and development in natural language processing."

LaTeX packages:

Note: Many of these are only installed on the head node, so submitting a LaTeX job to Condor may not work as expected.

Name	Purpose	Notes
Tipa 1.3	A system for processing IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols in LaTeX	Manual (in pdf and dvi format) is available in /usr/local/doc/tipa-1.3

-- DavidBrodbeck - 10 Oct 2007