[developers] ERG paraphrasing with ACE

[Woodley Packard]

Hi Francis,

ACE has a couple of mechanisms for automatically applying transfer rules, but they only work with unambiguous transfer rule sets.  You can load transfer rules with tdl status "fixup-rule" to make them apply before generation or tdl status "cleanup-rule" to make them apply after parsing (and also after generation, though most people don't look at the MRS that is generated with a realization).  I don't think this will work for  you though because when the rules are ambiguous, the system just takes the first result (and prints a warning).

So, assuming you want fan out, you need to put a separate transfer grammar phase in the middle.

Regards,
Woodley

On Jan 29, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> Does anyone know if there is any simple way to
> parse+paraphrase+generate using the ERG and ACE using the
> paraphraser.mtr?
> 
> i.e. to pass all out put through the paraphraser by default?  If not,
> we can just build a light enen system, but I thought I'd see if there
> was a short cut :-).
> 
> -- 
> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University