Systemics: A Systemic-Functional Analysis Tool

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Systemics - Software developed by Kay O'Halloran and Kevin Judd

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellkoh/Overview.html

Systemics is designed to allow efficient and comprehensive discourse analysis of text from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Systemics is designed to be used for both academic and postgraduate research and also for the teaching of SFL in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. However, as the pre-programmed grammar in Systemics can be modified, the discourse analysis undertaken with this software can incorporate other theoretical perspectives. The physical constraints of using systemic functional grammar for text analysis are overcome through the following features in Systemics:

The options within the major systems for interpersonal, experiential, logical and textual meaning at the rank of word, word group/phrase, clause, clause complex, paragraph and text have been pre-programmed in Systemics as the 'standard' functional grammar. This means that the analysis may be manually coded quickly and efficiently through pulldown menus. The generic structure of the text may also be manually coded.

The search facility allows the user to extract the results of the analysis for each system at each rank. This includes extracting the functional elements from the text.

The pages in Systemics containing the analysis (the text divided into numbered clauses, the tables with the clause analysis, the logical relations, exchange structure, reference chains and lexical strings together with the search results) may be printed.

The user may modify the existing 'standard' systemic functional grammar by entering new options and systems according to individual requirements. This new grammar may be included in Systemics to analyse one text, or it may be saved as a separate grammar file to be used later for the analysis of other texts.

There is an additional version, Systemics2, in the Software folder on the CDROM. This version has double sized fonts for all the text and menus so that it will be useful for teaching and demonstrations in lecture theatres. After installing Systemics, copy Systemics2 from the CDROM by dragging and dropping the icon into your Systemics folder.

Systemics features Text, Clause, Interclausal, Discourse, Search and Grammar pages. A brief explanation of these pages are given below:


Text Page displays the text as a sequence of numbered clauses. The generic structure may be manually entered here.

Clause Page displays the analysis at the rank of word, word group and clause.

Interclausal Page displays the analysis for logical relations and exchange structure at the rank of clause complex, paragraph and text.

Discourse Page displays the analysis for reference chains and lexical relations at the rank of paragraph and text.

Search Page is used to extract the results of the analysis and functional elements to which labels have been attached.

Grammar Page contains a glossary for the abbreviations used in the 'standard' grammar together with references for further reading. A condensed version of this glossary is reproduced in the System Key Abbreviations and Glossary. This page may be printed for quick and easy reference. Significantly, the Grammar Page also contains the facility whereby the user can modify existing options and systems in the 'standard' grammar. The user may save these changes in the existing grammar to be used with the current database file, or alternatively the changes may be saved in a separate grammar file which may be used later with other database files.
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Here attached is the Systemics software, simply unzip the attached file Systemics.zip to a folder, then double click Systemics.bat to run it. You may play with the examples bundled with by opening Example.hdb in the folder named as Examples.

Pls note that it's only a Trial version, and you can only run it for 15 minutes and cannot save any changes. Surely you may want to send an e-mail to the developer to request the unlock key (about S$60, appr. ¥300 RMB for one machine code). However, if you do want to do something with it, it would be good for you to contact me for a better solution.

Sorry, the attached is bigger than 1024, so I could not upload it here. Jiajin, xusun575, armstrong and 清风出袖, pls check your emails, just sent it out.
 
Laohong, is the demo version free of copyright problem if we put it on the server for free downloading?
 
thanks a lot! though the happiness lasts for only 15 minutes, it is still called happiness! thanks a lot, laohong! have a nice day!

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Please upload it to the server, so anybody here who are interested in it can download it and have a try. Don't worry, this is not against copyright, coz it's a demo version, and it requests a registration code for work with full fucntions. This is the way to promote the tool.

If you want to register it, you need send your machine code to them. It's a pity that the registered version can only run with that particular machine. That is, it is still a demo version if you run it with another machine. According to Kay O'Halloran (the developer), registered users can get discount to install it to another machine with full functions (need request a new code from her).

By the way, this demo version can only run for 15 minutes EACH session. After it automatically closes, you can run it again. To put it simple, each time you can only run it for 15 minutes. Sorry for the confusion.
 
我们有了另外一个server space, 可供存放一些文件,正在联系,应该很快就能将systematics上传。
 
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