[developers] "nested unification context"

[Ned Letcher]

Yep, LOGON trunk, latest revision: 13341.

Sorry, meant to add that.

Ned


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:

> We've been seeing this on the KNOPPIX+LKB distribution, but I think
> Ned is actually using LOGON.  Ned, can you confirm that and give the
> version?
>
> Thanks,
> Emily
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Ned Letcher <nletcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been able to reliably reproduce this -- at least on my machine. This
> > error seems to occur following a parse that was aborted due to running
> out
> > of edges. ie:
> >
> > "Probable runaway rule: parse/generate aborted (see documentation for
> > *maximum-number-of-edges*)"
> >
> > Once this has occurred it seems that anything that then involves
> unification
> > results in the nested unification error, such as parsing, or loading a
> > grammar.
> >
> > I've attached a grammar that will give the max edges error if you try to
> > parse "der man leyen-t dos bukh". Then you can reload the grammar or try
> to
> > parse the string again to get the nested unification error.
> >
> > Ned
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Ann Copestake <
> Ann.Copestake at cl.cam.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> in case it helps - I recollect that error message as turning up in
> highly
> >> misleading contexts.  The ones I remember were code bugs - feature
> >> structure
> >> creation not being called correctly.  These could potentially turn up in
> >> lkb/user-fns.lsp as well as in the main code, so if that's been
> modified,
> >> I'd
> >> be suspicious.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Ann
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > nedned.net
>
>
>
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> Emily M. Bender
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> Department of Linguistics
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