[developers] Getting nil when reconstructing edges from derivations

[Emily M. Bender]

Hi Ned,

Not a complete answer, but I wouldn't expect to be able to reconstruct
100% of the trees unless I was using the same grammar version that produce
the profile in the first place.

Emily

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Ned Letcher <nletcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've run into some strange behaviour which I'm hoping someone can shed some
> light on. I've got some lisp code I'm using to reconstruct the spanning edge
> of the first reading for items in profiles:
>
> (defun get-item (i-id profile)
>   (first (tsdb::analyze profile
>                         :condition (format nil "i-id == ~a" i-id)
>                         :thorough '(:derivation))))
> (defun get-item-edge (item)
>   (tsdb::reconstruct
>    (tsdb::get-field :derivation
>                     (first (tsdb::get-field :results item)))))
>
> The problem is that get-item-edge is returning nil for some items even
> though they have derivations. For instance I get a nil result for item
> 10012800 in ws01 using erg 1212 but all the other parsing items from this
> profile are fine:
>
> (read-script-file-aux "~/logon/lingo/erg/lkb/script")
> (get-item-edge (get-item "10012800" "/gold/erg/ws01"))
> (get-item-edge (get-item "10012820" "/gold/erg/ws01"))
>
> I'm also getting many more of these nil results when running using trunk erg
> compared to 1212. When restricted to items with readings, running over ws01,
> I get only 1 of these nil results for 1212 and 73 for trunk erg. csli yields
> none with 1212 and 1 of these with trunk erg.
>
> Ned
>
>
> --
> nedned.net



-- 
Emily M. Bender
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma