Getting started

1. A quick Tutorial for the ILIAS - Learning Platform
   • Log on to the learning platform ILIAS. You will first see your "Personal Desktop".
   • Change your password by clicking on the corresponding button and following the instructions
   • Enter the "Personal Profile" and fill in your personal data
   • Use the menubar at the top to enter the "Course Overview" (Lerneinheitenübersicht). Click on the flag within the course description and subscribe to the course Grammar Formalisms and Parsing by using the green arrow on the right.
   • Have a look at the "Course Info". Enter the "Content" view of the course, choose one chapter and add a note.
   • Choose the "Bookmark" symbol from the menubar. Create a new folder named GramPa and save the URL of the course website to this folder.
   • Click on the "Search" symbol to enter the ILIAS search engine. Search for the string "computer" in "All Courses". Is there a difference between a search over "Keywords" or "Full Text"? Does it matter whether the string is capitalized? You may also search for the tutors.
   • Use the "Message" function to send an email message to the tutors (you may write whatever you want ;-) Use "Sent Messages" to check whether the message has been sent.
   • Enter the "Newsgroups" area, choose "Welcome" and reply to the "Welcome to Grammar Formalisms and Parsing" message you will find there.
   • Enter the "Groups" area. Click on the group name "Welcome". Enter the group by clicking the "Enter Group" button. Go back to the "Group" area.
   • Create a new group by clicking on the "New Group" button. Give the group a name identical with your last name. Select "closed" as type of Access and "Forum" as Purpose of Group. Add your tutors to the members of the group using "New Member" button. Create a new forum whose name is identical with your last name clicking on the "New Forum" button. Start a new topic there.
   • Quit the ILIAS learning platform
   
   
   Please note: Information on using ILIAS you will find under ILIAS User Help. You can get there by clicking on the "Help" button on the menubar of ILIAS.

2. Test Installation of the Learning Software Morph Moulder (MoMo)
   Later during the seminar, we will use a software called MoMo for investigating the formal foundations of constraint-based grammars. During the semester, MoMo will be further developed (and debugged) by our programmers. It is thus possible that you will receive improved updates of the software, which you will have to install on your account. To make sure that you can easily work with MoMo, we would like to ask you to install and test the software now.
   • MoMo uses Java 1.3.1. Please make sure that your machine is running this particular version of Java. If you do not know which version of Java you have, type java -version. Your system should reply with a message similar to

     java version "1.3.1"
     Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-b24)
     Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1-b24, mixed mode)
     

     If this is not the version of Java running on your system, please find out how to change your Java settings according to our requirements and make the necessery changes in your systems setup.
     Note: Some versions of Java 1.4.x will also work. We will try to make sure that whatever Java version is installed in designated computer pools of the participating universities will work with MoMo. If you work in one of those computer pools, you may safely assume that all problems that you may encounter have nothing to do with Java.
   • Download the tar file momo.tar (with standard browser settings you may do that by clicking on the link with the right mouse button and choosing the option "save link as")
   • Put momo.tar into the home directory of your account and unpack the file by typing tar -xvf momo.tar. This will create a new directory MOMO/, which contains the complete MoMo software package. For later updates, we will use that directory.
   • For running MoMo on your account, you need to give the MoMo applet permission to execute, read, and write files on your account. These permissions are set by a so-called java policy file. To set them, go to your MOMO directory and open the file .java.policy (contained in the directory) in an editor.
   • The first line of .java.policy looks as follows:
     

     grant codeBase "file:/HOME/ACCOUNT/MOMO/-" {

     Delete the part /HOME/ACCOUNT of this line and replace it by the path to your home directory on your system. If you do not know that path, go back to your home directory and type pwd. The system will reply with the path information that you need. For example, on my laptop my home directory is /home/fr, and the first line of my java policy file would have to be

     grant codeBase "file:/home/fr/MOMO/-" {

   • Save your modified .java.policy file and quit the editor.
   • Move the .java.policy file to your home directory by typing mv .java.policy ~/ (the last two symbols are: tilde, slash) in your MOMO directory.
   • Remove the momo.tar file from your home directory (rm momo.tar).
   • Start MoMo by typing momo & in the MOMO directory. MoMo will come up with the Notepad window. At the moment we are not interested in any of the functionalities of MoMo. We only want to make sure that it is installed correctly.
   • To check the installation, choose the menu item "File" on the menubar and select "Open". If your .java.policy file is installed correctly, a new window will open that asks you to choose among your folders and/or files.
   • Open the folder "MOMO". Within that folder, open the folder "Pakete". It contains one file, example1.mmp.
   • Open example1.mmp. Now one more window should come up which contains a rather colorful graph. Moreover, you will see all sorts of symbols and words appear in the Notepad window.
     For the time being, we will not pursue the hows and whys of MoMo any further - we are satisfied to know that we have installed it successfully. Please close MoMo by selecting the item "Close" of the "File" menu item of the Notepad window.