Download PLA

Select this link to Download Current Version or Other Versions including zip (Compressed) then follow the steps below

Installer Instructions

1. select download now - put it someplace where you can find it (e.g. C:/z-shareware/cassbeth)
2. when download completes, Right click on the zip file, select properties, and uncheck Blocked, or the software will not run properly
3. find installpla.exe and double click it, follow install instructions
4. start PLA by going to your Start Menu, look for CassBeth PLA and select Start PLA
5. when browser starts up, wait till PLA default page with lots of links is displayed
6. press submit
7. enter the activation keys: Demo Keys for full function keys Buy Now
8. respond to the license and wait till PLA default page with lots of links is displayed
9. this completes the install of PLA

Compressed Instructions Use this if you are prevented from using the Installer or if you are prevented from downloading .zip files

1. For the zip version download the .zip or .freedom version
2. If you downloaded .freedom rename it to .zip
3. Right click on the zip file, select properties, and uncheck Blocked, or the software will not run properly
4. unzip (uncompress) the file (make sure it is Unblocked)
5. place it on your C drive as C:\z-cassbeth
6. go to C:\z-cassbeth\BCMC
7. look for startBCMC.exe, create a shortcut, and select Start BCMC
8. follow steps 6 - 9 in the Installer Instructions

This is the way programs were installed in the past. It provides full visibility into where the program resides and executes on your computer.

Platforms
Will not work with Chrome (goolge browser). They are blocking all programs that run on your platform that use Internet technologies like Apache.

Win95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, ME, 7 and beyond using Firefox or IE or other browsers
let us know if it works on your APPLE using a PC emulator
Online on our servers
Various UNIX platforms avaliable upon request

Abstract

Plain Language Analysis tool is a new revolutionary analysis tool to help users create clear, concise, unambiguous documents using the Plain Language technique.

On June 1, 1998, President Clinton issued an executive memo requiring agencies to write in plain language. Several statutes have also admonished agencies to write certain types of documents in plain language. Our Plain Language Analysis (PLA) tool is based on the SAT technologies; this tool allows a user to analyze documents using Plane Language Analysis Templates. The Plain Language Analysis Templates can be created by any user and applied in any of our document analysis tools. This tool is specifically for those chartered with the Pain Language compliance tasks.

Who is PLA for and what does it do for us?

PLA is for anyone involved in editing, publishing, and reviewing documents. Plain Language is about communications so PLA also includes templates from our other tools that can help anyone understand a document.

So...

PLA is for every legislator and government representative on earth. As we ponder our actions and seal our role in history. As we create legislation and serve the forces we decide to serve.

PLA is for every teacher and student in every country on earth. If you are able to use an Internet search engine you are able to use PLA. So children can use it in their history and social studies classes that we provide.

PLA is for every professor and advanced student in every country on earth. It allows the serious academic to ruthlessly slice through text and provide quantitative results of our studies. It helps to remove the bias of our cultural and educational past.

PLA is for every human on earth. To help us understand our present and our history. To ruthlessly slice through a document and gather the evidence that it's content reveals.

Release History

Release 1.6 April 17, 2016

Innovations

Usability
- updated to run on Win7 and beyond
- updated for install to use compressed download so everyone can install no matter what

Maintenance

Release 1.5 February 16, 2013

Innovations

Usability

Maintenance
- updated demo keys and added demo keys link
- added other two book image
- updated installed company info to be CassBeth
- updated Apache to include FMT in conf file

Release 1.4 March 10, 2009

Innovations

Usability

Maintenance
- Corrected problem associated with new parameter added in 1.3

Release 1.3 February 22, 2009

Innovations
- New parameter added allowing rule set to mine objects bound by various categories. In this case there was a GDA need to find dollar appropriations based on different power generation approaches in President Obamas' American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Usability
- updated APACHE to show full file name in template, history, and document areas

Maintenance

Release 1.2 October 18, 2008

Innovations
- Offered free version that displays book and link

Usability

Maintenance
- Updaded key management system

Release 1.1 Decmber 02, 2007

Innovations
- added .{25,} to noise words pattern

Usability
- updated keys
- updated help files
- updated default keys

Maintenance
- fixed spelling errors
- removed service PUI artifact

Release 1.0 October 09, 2007

Innovations
- Removed third party license mechanism
- Added library descriptions
- Removed Demo version analysis restrictions all data is now provided

Usability
- Provided stop now for large documents
- Improved GUI
- Moved help and libraries to top of page
- Reduced size

Maintenance
- Changed exit to make sure Apache child process fully shuts down on all installations

Release 0.4.5 November 21, 2006

Innovations
- Added search check boxes to Analysis Results to perform on the spot searches while reviewing objects
- Changed search radio buttons to check boxes to perform multi-searches in Accessed Words and Patterns
- Added Show Search check box for fast rule changes and ad hoc searches

Usability
- Provided exit feature to shut down apache server
- Added check boxes to quickly hide unwanted report areas
- Added PUI link to Analysis Report search returns

Maintenance
- Changed startup to delete previously uploaded files

Release 0.4.4 August 28, 2006

Intial release