Annual Release Procedures

This page describes annual release procedures for lexAccess tools software with new set of THE SPECIALIST LEXICON data. LexAccess features are stable and no new software is planned to release after 2013. Accordingly, only data updates (steps 4 and 5) are needed for annual updates. All other steps are used for references and not required.

  1. Prepare lexAccess${YEAR} web site for new documents

  2. Prepare lexAccess${YEAR} baseline

  3. Compile (check) to finish the baseline

  4. LA PreProc

  5. LoadDb Program

  6. Update Installation Program

  7. Complete SCRs for current ${YEAR} release

  8. Build & Test (Complete the software part)

  9. Update other software components

  10. Compile (see above) & Test

  11. Compile & pack

  12. Generate pure ASCII Database (for MetaMap Project)