Lvg

Lvg Interim Report

- February, 2001 -

LVG Beta Release
LVG V 1.0 Release

LVG Beta Release

Objective
Current Status
Release Plan
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Objective

To create shrink wrapped version of the lexical tools
To turn lexical tools into a suite of production quality tools
To establish a set of standard procedures for developing distributable software products
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Beta Delivery

Software
- Norm
- LuiNorm
- LVG
Documents
- Development Documents
- API References
- Users Guide
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Current Status

Software:
- Most software components are designed, implemented, and tested
- Focus on system architecture, software API, and core software components
- Norm is completed
- LuiNorm is completed
- Lvg is almost ready for Beta release
Documents:
- LVG Development Documents are updated daily
- LVG API References (70% done)
- LVG Users Guide (based on the previous version)
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Tasks Details

LVG - Flow components
LVG API references (for developers and end users)
LVG users guide
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LVG Flow Components

40 official flow components
34 flows are implemented and tested (intensive unit test)
3 flows are implemented without unit test (L, L:n, and L:p)
3 flows are yet to be implemented
- G => Generate all fruitful variants
- m => Generate the MetaPhone spelling normalized form
- q => Strip diacritic
3+ new flows components
- c:a => tokenization (Keep everything)
- S => Syntactic Uninvert
- v => Retrieve pre-computed MetaMap Variants
- ? => new filter options on inflection schemes (e.g. noun: base/singular).
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LVG API References

To check all source codes to meet coding standard (~180,000 lines)
To complete comments on all LVG Java packages (7+ packages)
To complete comments on all Java classes (~120 classes)
To complete comments on all public methods (~900 public methods)
Estimated time: 2 more weeks
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LVG Users Guide

Most information are still valid.
What is needed to be modified (checked):
- All examples
- Symbols of all flow components
- System options
- Schemes of categories and inflections
- Others: new features and errors
Estimated time: 3 ~ 4 weeks
Use development document instead for Beta release

New LVG Options

Global Behavior Options
- d => Show detail information on operations of Lvg flow components
- hs => Show option's hierarchy structure
- i:STR => Define input file name. The default is screen input
- o:STR => Define output file name. The default is screen output
- p => Show the prompt. The default is no prompt
Output Filter Options
- SC => Show category in name
- SI => Show inflection in name
- DC:LONG => Display variants contain specified categories
- DI:LONG => Display variants contain specified inflections
- CR:o => Combine records by output term
- CR:oc => Combine records by output term and category
- CR:oe => Combine records by output term and eui (used in flow s with -m option on)
- CR:oi => Combine records by output term and inflection
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Beta Release Plans

Target Date: February ~ March, 2001
Notify users who are interested
Release from the Web
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Objective

To turn lexical tools into a suite of production quality tools
- Functionality
- Maintainability
To establish a set of standard procedures for developing distributable software products
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New Features

Tasks	Benefit	Estimated Time (week)	Status
Programs for loading database tables and data into different database	Critical	1	Done
New format of flow history	Critical	1	Done
LVG Tutorial	Important	4	TBD
On-line LVG Tool (a LVG Web site)	Important	12	TBD
LVG GUI tool (Java Swing)	Important	10	TBD
New flow Component (Filter out redundant inflection outputs)	Important	1	Done
New flow Component (d in recursive algorithm with -m option)	Useful	1	Done
New flow Component (y in recursive algorithm with -m option)	Useful	1	Done
New flow Component (Tokenizing and composing a string)	Useful	1.5	TBD
Slow performance issue on "like %" SQL in DB (IDB)	Useful	?	Done
Fix bugs and answer user's requests from Beta testers	Useful	?	Working
.	.	33+ (Total)	.

Critical: Essential feature. All critical features must be implemented. Failure to implement means the system will not meet user needs.
Important: Features important to the effectiveness and efficiency of LVG. The functionality can not be easily provided in some other way. Lack of inclusion of an important feature may affect user satisfaction. However, release will not be delayed due to lack of any important feature.
Useful: Features that will be used less frequently, or for which reasonably efficient workarounds can be achieved. No significant user satisfaction impact can be expected if such an item is not included in a release.

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DB Loading Procedures x . . . . . . . . .

New format of flow history . x . . . . . . . . .

Update Users Guide . . xx xx . . . . . . . .

Flow symbols conversion . . . xx . . . . . . . .

Complete a set of tests . . xxx . . . . . . .

Code Review . . . . . x xxxx x . . . . .

Complete flow components . . . . . xx xxxx . . . . .

Enhance LVG from Beta testers . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x

Software Tracking System . . . . x . . . . . .

LVG GUI tool (Java Swing) . . . . . xxxx xxxx xx . .

On-line LVG Tool (a LVG Web site) . . . . . xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx

LVG Turotial . . . . . . . . . x xxxx . .

V1.0 Release Plans

A stable release 1.0 version of LVG: July, 2001
LVG Tutorial: November, 2001
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Contents

LVG Beta Release

Objective

Beta Delivery

Current Status

Tasks Details

LVG Flow Components

LVG API References

LVG Users Guide

New LVG Options

Beta Release Plans

LVG V1.0 Release

Objective

Proposed Tasks

New Features

Maintainability

Tentative Schedule

V1.0 Release Plans

.	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
DB Loading Procedures	x	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
New format of flow history	. x	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Update Users Guide	. . xx	xx	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Flow symbols conversion	.	. . xx	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Complete a set of tests	.	.	xxx	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Code Review	.	.	. . . x	xxxx	x	.	.	.	.	.
Complete flow components	.	.	.	. . xx	xxxx	.	.	.	.	.
Enhance LVG from Beta testers	. x	. x	. x	. x	. x	. x	. x	. x	. x	. x
Software Tracking System	.	.	.	. x	.	.	.	.	.	.
LVG GUI tool (Java Swing)	.	.	.	.	.	xxxx	xxxx	xx	.	.
On-line LVG Tool (a LVG Web site)	.	.	.	.	.	xxxx	xxxx	xxxx	xxxx	xxxx
LVG Turotial	.	.	.	.	.	.	. . . x	xxxx	.	.