[developers] morphology check in

[Dan Flickinger]

Hi Ann -

I'll have a look at this later today, and send you a diagnosis and perhaps
a corrected grammar tomorrow (Thursday), once I'm back in Oslo.

  Dan

> 
> Dan - read this please!
> 
> OK - I'd tested on the previously checked in version of the ERG which is fine
.
> I suspect the problem is that the current version of the ERG is buggy in the
> sense of having too many cyclically applicable rules for the rule filter to
> work with.  As I explained, the rule filter computation exponential in this
> case - the bug in the last version of the code led to this not being obvious
> and cycles probably weren't being checked for properly.  According to the val
ue
> of *cyclic-lr-list* when I aborted the computation, the following are cyclic:
> 
> (#[rule PUNCT_COLON_RULE o] #[rule PUNCT_PERIOD_RULE o]
>  #[rule PUNCT_COMMA_INFORMAL_RULE o] #[rule ATTR_ADJ_VERB_TR_PART ]
>  #[rule PUNCT_LPAREN_RULE o] #[rule ATTR_ADJ_VERB_PART ]
>  #[rule ENOUGHADD ] #[rule PUNCT_SQLEFT_RULE o] #[rule SAILR ]
>  #[rule PUNCT_BANG_RULE o] #[rule PUNCT_SEMICOL_RULE o] #[rule ADVADD ]
>  #[rule PUNCT_DQLEFT_RULE o] #[rule MONTHDET ]
>  #[rule PUNCT_SQRIGHT_RULE o] #[rule PAST_VERB_INFL_RULE o]
>  #[rule PUNCT_QMARK_RULE o] #[rule PUNCT_RPAREN_RULE o]
>  #[rule WEEKDAYDET ] #[rule TAGLR ] #[rule PUNCT_DQRIGHT_RULE o]
>  #[rule NON_THIRD_SG_FIN_VERB_INFL_RULE ] #[rule PUNCT_COMMA_RULE o]
>  #[rule PUNCT_HYPHEN_RULE o])
> 
> I haven't checked whether this is in fact true yet - I thought I should
> probably send this message quickly in case Dan is in response mode.  There ma
y
> be something I can do if it's thought desirable for all these to apply to the
ir
> own output: my working assumption was that there are a relatively small numbe
r
> of rules where this is desirable, but I am willing to reconsider.  We can may
be
> just compute the rule-filter for non-morphologically active lexical rules.
> 
> I will check in a change so that the cyclic rules are listed as they are foun
d.
> Current state of the code is that one message is sent when all are found but
> that's obviously too late.
> 
> Ann
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