[developers] results after edge limit reached?

[Rebecca Dridan]

Maybe this related to an inconsistency I am seeing between test runs 
using the export script (with --terg) and running cheap with the 
-tsdbdump option?

Running cheap directly, all time outs have readings = -1, but through 
the export script they are mostly 0, and some greater than 0. As you 
say, it changes the [incr tsdb()] statistics. Should I assume the export 
script represents consensus and time outs should be considered in the 
time and memory use figures? (Ultimately I'm using a perl script anyway, 
to save loading the fine system, so my calculations can go either way.)

Rebecca

Stephan Oepen wrote:
> jeff,
> 
> i have no source code accessible right now, but i'm pretty sure that PET 
> vs. the LKB differ in this respect.  from the profiling point of view, i 
> (used to) think that items that hit any kind of resource limit should be 
> flagged (readings = -1) and excluded from many of the [incr tsdb()] 
> statistics.  years ago, stefan müller argued forcefully for results that 
> had been found at that point to be returned, nevertheless, which is what 
> PET implements today.  note that the time-out is recorded in the error 
> field alright, but seeing that the search for analyses was not complete, 
> selective unpacking cannot guaratee returning the correct n-best list.  
> in the LKB, on the other hand, time-outs are signalled (internally) by 
> raising an exception.  in these cases, control is returned immediately 
> to [incr tsdb()], and no attempt is made at enumerating solutions.  
> hence, i would expect that you are seeing the results of a complete 
> search whenever readings >= 0.  this should be true of parsing and 
> generation alike (in the LKB).
> 
> all best, oe
> 
> 
> On Aug 14, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Michael Wayne Goodman 
> <goodmami at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>>
>> In parsing with PET and (particularly) generation with the LKB, if the
>> edge-limit has been exhausted after some results have been found, are
>> those results returned? I checked some items where the edge-limit was
>> reached and did not observe any results for them, but I can't be
>> certain that that will always be the case.
>>
>> Any help or insight would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>> -Michael Wayne Goodman
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