			Punjabi Morphological Analyzer and Generator


-About Punjabi Morphological Analyzer and Generator
	This tool has been developed as a part of the Ph.D. work 'Development of a Punjabi Grammar Checker' being undertaken by Mandeep Singh Gill in Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language, Literature and Culture at the Department of Computer Science of Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab) under the guidance of Dr. G. S. Lehal and Dr. S. S. Joshi.

-Installation requirements
	This tool is designed to work on Windows operating system only. It has been developed in C#.NET, so it requires .NET platform to be installed on the user machine 
for its proper working. You can find the required .NET platform file (dotnetfx.exe) in dotNetFramework directory in the same directory from which you opened this file. Run that setup file(dotnetfx.exe) before or after running the setup of this tool(provided in Punjabi Morphological Analyzer and Generator directory). It also requires 'Akhar' Punjabi font for displaying text in Gurmukhi script (used by Punjabi language). 'Akhar' font is in Punjabi Font directory.

-Description of directories
	-dotNetFramework directory 
		Contains a file named dotnetfx.exe(i.e. .NET framework). It must be installed before running the actual setup of this tool, in case you do not have .NET framework installed on your machine.
	-Punjabi Morphological Analyzer and Generator directory
		Contains the actual setup of this tool. Run setup.exe after you have installed .NET framework on your machine.
	-Punjabi Font
		Contains the Punjabi font 'Akhar' used by this tool. Copy it to fonts folder in your windows directory, only in case you are experiencing problems viewing Punjabi text with this tool.

-About Us
	This tool has been developed by
				Mandeep Singh Gill
				V. & P. O. Mehron
				Teh. & Distt. Moga - 142001
				Punjab, India
				msgill_in@yahoo.com
	at
				Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language, Literature and Culture
				Department of Computer Science
				Punjabi University
				Patiala - 147002
				Punjab, India
				(http://www.advancedcentrepunjabi.org)
	as a part of the Ph.D. work titled 'Developement of a Punjabi Grammar Checker'
	
	Under the guidance of
				Dr. G. S. Lehal
				Professor
				Department of Computer Science
				Punjabi University
				Patiala - 147002
				Punjab, India
				gslehal@yahoo.com
	and			
				Dr. S. S. Joshi
				Retired Professor of Linguistics
				Punjabi University
				Patiala - 147002
				Punjab, India
				joshi_shivjoshi@yahoo.co.in
	
				