[developers] Parsing a profile with ace

[Michael Wayne Goodman]

Yes, you can use Art: http://sweaglesw.org/linguistics/libtsdb/art

$ art -a $ACECOMMAND path/to/profile

The input profile is not a skeleton, but an empty instantiated
profile. Use the bundled mkprof command to create an empty profile
from a skeleton.

ACECOMMAND is a string with the command that calls ACE. It might look like this:

ACECOMMAND="path/to/ace -g path/to/compiled/grammar.dat"

We've found out recently that you can pipe commands in that string,
which we use for preprocessing:

ACECOMMAND="preprocessor | ace ..."

There's more info at the Art website and ACE's
(http://sweaglesw.org/linguistics/ace/). Hope that helps

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Mike.  Looks like those directions involve invoking ace via [incr
> tsdb()] and assume the logon tree.  I can give that shot tomorrow on campus,
> but for now I'm working with Ubuntu+LKB (so without the full logon
> environment).  I thought there was a lighter-weight way of processing
> profiles with ace and storing the results?
>
> Emily
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Michael Wayne Goodman
> <goodmami at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The URL might be only accessibly within NTU. I attach the text file.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the quick reply, Sanghoun! Unfortunately, that URL isn't
>> > working
>> > for me ... does it work for you?
>> >
>> > Google Chrome could not load the webpage because 172.21.174.40 took too
>> > long
>> > to respond. The website may be down, or you may be experiencing issues
>> > with
>> > your Internet connection.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Sanghoun Song <sanghoun at uw.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dear Emily,
>> >>
>> >> Last time, Dan gave us the instruction session of using FFTB. Here is
>> >> the
>> >> step-by-step instruction. I hope this will be of help!
>> >>
>> >> http://172.21.174.40/grameng/data/fftb_dan.txt
>> >>
>> >> Sanghoun
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Dear Woodley (cc: developers),
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a grammar for Matsigenka which is wildly ambiguous (because
>> >>> it's
>> >>> automatically derived...) and I'd like to explore that ambiguity using
>> >>> FFTB.
>> >>> I have an [incr tsdb()] profile, but I can't find any documentation
>> >>> (starting from either AceTop or FftbTop) on how to create a
>> >>> full-forest
>> >>> profile with ace.  Can you point me in the right direction?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Emily
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Emily M. Bender
>> >>> Professor, Department of Linguistics
>> >>> Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> ====================================
>> >> Sanghoun Song
>> >> Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics | http://corpus.mireene.com
>> >> NTU Computational Linguistics Lab. | http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg
>> >> ====================================
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Emily M. Bender
>> > Professor, Department of Linguistics
>> > Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Michael Wayne Goodman
>
>
>
>
> --
> Emily M. Bender
> Professor, Department of Linguistics
> Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma



-- 
-Michael Wayne Goodman