LexAccess - Options

This page describes all options in the LexAccess Tool. By default, if no option is specified, LexAccess will return all lexical records in text format of the input term. The input term may be a base form, inflected term, or EUI. In a word, the default settings of lexAccess are:

• Program: lexAccess
• Input: a base form, inflected term, or EUI.
• Output: lexical records in text format

The table below lists all options in the command line lexAccess tool. The first and second column lists the option and descriptions. The third column shows the mode of each option. There are two modes in lexAccess:

• immediate mode: no input required, get the result immediately
• interactive mode: requires input to get the results.

The fourth column of the following table, references, describes similar options function in "lf" or "lcat". You may ignore the last column if you did not use "lf" or "lcat".

• Options:

  Option	Feature Descriptions	Mode	References
  Main options:
  -ci	show configuration information	immediate
  -cn:LONG	specify category in values	immediate
  -cnf:LONG	output category filter	interactive
  -h	help menu	immediate	lcat -h lf -h
  -i:STR	specify an input file	interactive
  -n	print -Not Found- message	interactive	lf -n
  -o:STR	specify an output file	Both
  -p	show prompt	interactive
  -q	print query term (command string)	Both	lf -pk
  -s:STR	specify separator	Both	lcat -t <separator> lf -t <separator>
  -t	print total number of retrieved lexical records	Both
  -v	version of LexAccess	immediate
  -x:STR	specify an alternate configuration file	Both
  Base options (interactive mode):
  -b:b	retrieve lexical records with base begins with input term	interactive
  -b:c	retrieve lexical records with base contains with input term	interactive
  -b:e	retrieve lexical records with base end with	interactive
  -b:ex	retrieve lexical records with exact base match	interactive
  Category options (no input required):
  -c:a	specify categories to adj	immediate	lcat -ca
  -c:all	specify categories to all	immediate	lcat -pr
  -c:b	specify categories to adv	immediate	lcat -cb
  -c:c	specify categories to compl	immediate	lcat -cc
  -c:d	specify categories to det	immediate	lcat -cd
  -c:h	Help Menu for specifying category	immediate
  -c:j	specify categories to conj	immediate	lcat -cj
  -c:m	specify categories to modal	immediate	lcat -cm
  -c:n	specify categories to noun	immediate	lcat -cn
  -c:p	specify categories to prep	immediate	lcat -cp
  -c:r	specify categories pron	immediate	lcat -cr
  -c:v	specify categories verb	immediate	lcat -cv
  -c:x	specify categories to aux	immediate	lcat -cx
  Filter Options:
  -f:b	print base forms	Both	lcat -pb
  -f:bd	print base forms with details	Both
  -f:h	Help menu for output format	immediate
  -f:i	print inflected terms	Both	lcat -pk
  -f:id	print inflected terms details	Both
  -f:s	print base form or spelling variants	Both	lcat -ps
  -f:sd	print base form and spelling variants with details	Both
  -f:t	print lexical records in text format (default)	Both
  -f:tx	print lexical record in text & Xml format	Both
  -f:x	print lexical records in Xml format	Both