The Constituent Object Parser Users manual Version 1
Douglas P. Metzler, Stephanie W. Haas, Cynthia L. Cosic · D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) · 1988
This manual describes the operation of the Constituent Object parser (COP). it covers the following features and tools of COP: how to start the TI Explorer and load COP; How to parse a sentence or a batch of sentences (i.e., from abstracts); how to look at the results of the parse, including two forms of tree structures and a list of all the constituents that were built during the parse; how to compare a query sentence with a target sentence or abstract(s); how to process the grammars and dictionary after changes have been made to them; how to identify words in a file (e.g. of abstracts) that are not in the dictionary; how to use the Single Word Dictionary Tool and the Multiple Word Dictionary Tool to look at sets words in the dictionary, add word entries, or change existing word entries.