NAME
	cxsearch


SYNOPSIS
	cxsearch -spkr spkrdir [-so] [-sp] xscript


DESCRIPTION

	An utility for searching files from CDROM of CU Corpora using regular
	expression. The items to be search could either be the phonetic
	transcription or the orthographic transcription (BIG5 text) of the data.

	[Note: This utility is not applicable to CUSYL]


OPTIONS
	The following options are supported:

	-spkr spkrdir

	"spkrdir" is the speaker directory of the CDROM in CU Corpora. By the
	time of writing this program, the known corpora to be applicable are :
	CUWORD, CUDIGIT, CUCMD, CUSENT

	-so

	Search by the orthographic transcriptoin. The transcription in CU
	Corpora is in BIG5 code for Chinese text. This option and the -sp option
	is mutually exclusive. If both are specified in the command line. The
	last one will be active.

	-sp

	Search by the phonemic transcription. The transcription in CU Corpora
	is in LSHK scheme. This option is the default. This option and the -so
	option is mutually exclusive. If both are specified in the command line.
	The last one will be active.

	xscript

	It is the pattern to be search. It could be simply the orthographic
	(BIG5 text) or phonemic transcription you are interested. In fact, it
	is an regular expression (RE). Therefore, you may specify the
	transcriptions you are interested as RE which will give you a powerful
	searching utility for the corpora.


EXAMPLE
	Normal string matching
	      cxsearch -spkr CC04M -sp hoi1
	This will retrive all the name of all files with syllables /hoi1/.

	Regular expression matching
	      cxsearch -spkr CC04M -sp oi[12]
	This will retrive all the name of all files with syllables with final
	/oi/, either in tone 1 or tone 2.


REGULAR EXPRESSION SHORT NOTE
	*	zero or multiple match to preceeding character
	+	one or multiple match to preceeding character
	[]	match either one of the character(s) in the bracket


AUTHOR
	HSIUNG Chun-Fat and LO Wai-Kit (wklo@ieee.org)


CONTACT
	For more information, please check at
	                  http://dsp.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/speech


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
	It is part of the Cantonese Speech Database project carried out by the
	Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (DSPLAB), Department of Electronic
	Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This project
	(AF/20/97) is supported by the Industrial Support Fund (ISF), Industry
	Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, China.


DISCLAIMS
	cxsearch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
	ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
	FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

	Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
	this material/event (or by members of the project team) do not reflect
	the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
	Region, the Industry Department or the Industry and Technology
	Development Council.


COPYRIGHT
	(C) 1999 The Chineses University of Hong Kong. All Rights Reserved.