[developers] Lexdb settings

[Ben Waldron]

I suggest first familiarizing yourself with the lexical database that is 
distributed as part of the ERG

http://www.delph-in.net/erg/

before you go on to create and run your own lexical database. The 
single-user setup to which Francis refers is simpler to set up and run, 
and almost certainly more suitable for your needs.  There's some 
documentation here:

http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LkbLexDbSingleUser
http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/JacyLexDb

Regarding your problems setting the global variable. You can either set 
it from the LKB Lisp prompt (make sure to include setf and the single 
quote as shown):

LKB(15): (setf *lexdb-params* '((:DBNAME "erg")))

Or it can be set from the GUI (LKB Top->Options->Set Options...) by pasting

((:DBNAME "erg"))

into the value slot for *LEXDB-PARAMS*. (note there is no single quote here)

Hope this helps,
- Ben

Ben Waldron wrote:
> -original message-
> Subject: Re: [developers] Lexdb settings
> From: "Francis Bond" <fcbond at gmail.com>
> Date: 20/01/2009 08:13
>
> G'day,
>
>
>   
>> I'm still having trouble connecting to the lexdb database.  I'm not
>> entirely sure how to get the settings right.  I tried typing the
>> following command according to the wiki, but got an error:
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> LKB(2): lkb::*lexdb-params* ((:dbname "lil" :user "lexdb"))
>>     
>
>
> I think you need to type:
> (setf lkb::*lexdb-params* ' ((:dbname "lil") (:user "lexdb")))
>
> i.e. you need to use setf to set the value, you need to quote the lisp list,
> and each parameter value pair has to be a list.
>
> you should probably also set the type
>  (setf lkb::*lexdb-params* ' ((:dbname "lil") (:user "lexdb") (:type
> "multi-user"))))
>
> Jacy uses the somewhat simpler single user mode, there is some documentation
> in  http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/JacyLexDb.
>
> (:type :single-user)
>
>
> Does anyone have any insight on how to get the settings right?
>   
>
>
> I hope that this helps.
>
>