[developers] Do we need to load a grammar to do parse ranking?

[W.P. McNeill (UW)]

It looks like the answer is yes, you can do parse ranking without loading
the grammar.
I was asking because I ran into a bug where the Japanese grammar
mysteriously stopped loading (see the forwarded message from Francis) and I
wanted to make sure my workaround of removing the grammar loading step from
the load script wouldn't have any subtle bad consequences.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Stephan Oepen <stephan.oepen at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi bill,
>
> as you say, feature caching obviously requires the grammar.  it might well
> be the case that the grid search and training steps would work fine without
> the grammar (but there could also be some silly dependencies that i'm
> overlooking just now).  if you want to know, just give it a shot and post
> the results of that experiment.  in the larger scheme, however, i doubt that
> the savings in time or memory will be significant (well, memory maybe, if
> one's already tip-toeing around the limits of avalaible hardware).
>
> best, oe
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 6:43 AM, "W.P. McNeill (UW)" <billmcn at u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
>
> The $LOGON/lingo/redwoods/load script always loads a grammar.  Is this
> necessary?  For example, I would think that when I'm doing parse ranking I
> shouldn't need a grammar loaded after I've cached the features.  Is this
> correct?
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>


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