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<h1>Tutorial Introduction</h1>

<h2>Tutorial Structure</h2>

<p>Six tutorials guide you through the basics of VisualText™. You should 
 follow them in order; each takes about an hour.</p>

<p>The tutorials generally build on each other, so that the analyzer used 
 in Tutorial 2 is the one that was created in Tutorial 1.&nbsp; Because 
 of this, if you change file names, variable names, etc., from what is 
 presented in a tutorial, later tutorials may not work as described. <!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}-->&nbsp;<!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->However, 
 the release provides six tutorial analyzer projects, one for each tutorial, 
 so that you could start Tutorial 2 with the analyzer built by Tutorial 
 1, and so on.</p>

<h2>Tutorial Analyzers</h2>

<p style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff0000;">NOTE: In some versions of 
 VisualText, the zipped tutorial analyzers are absent or obsolete, so it 
 is best to start from scratch with Tutorial 1.</p>

<p>The tutorial analyzer projects are in folders named</p>

<p style="margin-left: 40px;
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			font-family: monospace;">C:\Program Files\TextAI\VisualText\docs\tutorial<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="x-text-underline: normal; /*begin!kadov{{*/ text-decoration: underline; /*}}end!kadov*/ "><font style="color: #ff0000;"
	color=#FF0000>N</font></span></span></p>

<p>where <span style="font-weight: bold; x-text-underline: normal; /*begin!kadov{{*/ text-decoration: underline; /*}}end!kadov*/ "><font 
 style="color: #ff0000;"
	color=#FF0000>N</font></span> is the tutorial number.&nbsp; So, for 
 example, the analyzer created by following Tutorial 1 resides at</p>

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			font-family: monospace;">C:\Program Files\TextAI\VisualText\docs\tutorial1\myAnalyzer1.zip</p>

<p>(Note: The assumed installation location is C:\Program Files. The exact 
 path to these files will of course depend on where you installed the software.) 
 If you do not have decompression software to access these files, you can 
 download WinZip from a website such as:</p>

<p>&nbsp;http://www.winzip.com</p>

<p>If you need to look at working code or start a new tutorial in sync 
 with the documentation, you can copy the tutorial analyzer in question 
 out of the docs folder in the install directories and into the working 
 directory.&nbsp; We've set up the working directory for the tutorial analyzers 
 to be:</p>

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			font-family: monospace;">C:\<!--kadov_tag{{<ignored>}}-->apps\myAnalyzerFolder\<!--kadov_tag{{</ignored>}}--></p>

<p>Suppose you wanted to start Tutorial 3 with a clean copy of the analyzer 
 created in Tutorial 2. You would go to the install directory containing 
 the zipped tutorial, in this case:</p>

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			margin-top: 14pt;
			x-text-tab-stops: repeat 1in;
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			font-family: monospace;">C:\Program Files\TextAI\VisualText\docs\tutorial2</p>

<p>and unzip the <span style="font-weight: bold;">myAnalyzer2.zip</span> 
 file. (When unzipping your files, it is best to keep the unzipped files 
 in a different directory than the working directory.) When you unzip the 
 file, it uncompresses to the folder called <span style="font-weight: bold;">myAnalyzer</span>.</p>

<p>Place the <span style="font-weight: bold;">myAnalyzer</span> folder 
 into the working directory:</p>

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			font-family: monospace;">C:\apps\myAnalyzerFolder\</p>

<p>Since the first tutorial starts from scratch, you cannot start out Tutorial 
 1 in this way.</p>

<h2>Additional Notes</h2>

<p>Here are a few extra notes before starting the tutorials.</p>

<ul>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p>You can view the Help documentation outside of 
 VisualText. <!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}-->&nbsp;<!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->You 
 can find it in the Start button under Programs, or at the location</p></li>
</ul>

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	<li class=kadov-p><p>The toolbars and windows presented in this tutorial 
 are assumed to be in the same position as they are when you first launch 
 VisualText. As you will learn in the Interface section, toolbars and windows 
 can be moved around to different locations. If you have experimented with 
 the VisualText interface before starting this tutorial, the toolbar graphics 
 may not precisely match what you see in these tutorials.</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><img src="GO.gif"
								style="width: 19px;
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										margin-bottom: 0px;
										margin-left: 0px;
										margin-right: 0px;"
								width=19
								height=16
								border=1> The right-arrow symbol, such 
 as the one at the beginning of this line, points you to the next action 
 you have to take in executing a tutorial.</p></li>
</ul>

<h2>Tutorial Description</h2>

<p>Six tutorials guide you through the basics of creating an analyzer. 
 Along the way, you will also be introduced to various tools and aspects 
 of the VisualText work environment. Below is a description of each tutorial. 
 <!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}-->&nbsp;<!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->You may 
 find it useful to scan through the tutorials to familiarize yourself with 
 the content before actually starting the tutorials. </p>

<ul>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><a HREF="tutorial1/tutorial.html">Tutorial 1</a>: 
 Creating new analyzers</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><a HREF="tutorial2/tutorial2.html">Tutorial 2</a>: 
 Sampling data and automatically generating analyzer rules</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><a HREF="tutorial3/tutorial3.html">Tutorial 3</a>: 
 Creating analyzer rules by hand</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><a HREF="tutorial4/tutorial4.html">Tutorial 4</a>: 
 Using input and output files</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><a HREF="tutorial5/tutorial5.html">Tutorial 5</a>: 
 Introduction to NLP++™</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><a HREF="tutorial6/tutorial6.html">Tutorial 6</a>: 
 Working with rule types and rule construction</p></li>
</ul>

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