[developers] Regarding to German sentence analysis.

[Michael Wayne Goodman]

Hi Megha,

(I've re-CC'd the developers list so they can benefit or contribute; please
include them in follow-up replies)

Thanks for clarifying.

When you do MRS -> DMRS conversion in your script, it is essentially this:

    print(dmrx.dumps(simplemrs.load(source)))

This loads the simplemrs-encoded source (e.g. a file or sys.stdin; or use
simplemrs.loads() for a string argument) into the internal *MRS
representation, then the dmrx codec serializes the internal representation
to DMRX. Doing DMRS -> MRS conversion is the same, but reversed:

    print(simplemrs.dumps(dmrx.load(source)))

(More technically, the dmrx and simplemrs codecs decode the text
streams/strings and instantiate the Dmrs() and Mrs() classes, respectively,
in the delphin.mrs.xmrs module. It is these classes (and not the codecs
themselves) that do the actual conversion into the internal format.)

However, there is a problem with the GG grammar and DMRS. The variable
properties prefixed by "--" (e.g. "--PSV") cause errors when loading a
DMRS. This is because the hyphen is not a valid initial character in an XML
attribute name (https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-NameStartChar). It is
Python's XML parser, and not PyDelphin, that is failing to load the DMRX
instance. I suggest doing one of the following:

 1. Change the attribute names in the GG grammar

 2. In your conversion script, find and replace these attributes on the MRS
before converting to DMRS, and change them back in DMRS->MRS conversion.
You may use underscores (e.g. "__PSV") as the initial character, according
to the XML spec.

Does this help?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:13 AM, megha jain <jain11megha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Michael.
>
> I know usage of Pydelphin so able to implement via this.
>
> I want to know which python code is being used by you to convert German
> DMRS into German MRS again?
>
> So that this MRS can be given ACE to generate corresponding German
> sentence.
>
> I am able to process : German sentence => MRS
>                                  MRS => DMRS
>                                  DMRS => MRS (that is my concern)
>
> EXAMPLE :-(A.)  INPUT : Abrams bellte sehr leise.
>
> (B.) When I gave above one sentence to ACE , It generated following MRS :-
> (command used : ./ace -g ggp.dat -1Tf input_file.txt)
>
> Following file is attached below.
>
> (C) I gave this MRS as an input to mrs_to_dmrs-pp.py pyhon code and
> corresponding DMRS generated.
> Following file is attached below.
>
> (D.) After this I want to convert corresponding DMRS into MRS . Which
> python code comes in use for this approach?
>
>
> Hopefully I am able to make you understand what is my concern.
>
> Thank You.
>
>


-- 
Michael Wayne Goodman
Ph.D. Candidate, UW Linguistics
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