[developers] HOWTO limit the number of generation results in the online demo?

[Berthold Crysmann]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 16:35 +0200, Berthold Crysmann wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> in order to make the generation demo a bit more responsive on sentences
> with tens or hundreds of realisations, I would like to restrict the
> number of analyses that are returned from the forest to some reasonable
> value, say, the top 20. 
> 
> However, setting values as given below in the lisp file loading the
> generation grammar does not seem to have any effect. Any help would be
> appreciated. 
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> 
> (set (intern "*TSDB-MAXIMAL-NUMBER-OF-RESULTS*" :tsdb) 20)
> 

Of course¸I also set:

(set (intern "*TSDB-EXHAUSTIVE-P*" :tsdb) nil)

> Using the --limit option to the www script does not show the desired
> behaviour either, still unpacking the entire forest. 
> 
> 
> 
> Berthold
> 
> 
> PS: 
> 
> How do I browse more than the top 5 generation results? 
> 
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