[developers] pyDelphin / [incr tsdb()] question

goodman.m.w at gmail.com goodman.m.w at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 05:38:46 CEST 2019


Hi Emily,

By changing the i-length field from -1 to 6 in the two items, I get [incr
tsdb()] to say the following:

    retrieve(): found 2 items (0 output specifications).

So I suspect that is the problem. Since i-length is just the number of
tokens I find it odd that [incr tsdb()] would rely on that instead of just
counting tokens. Processing with art or PyDelphin and ACE works fine
regardless of the value of i-length.

I would modify Xigt's exporter to insert the number of tokens in the
i-length field. E.g., at the end of export_igt() put something like this
before the return statement:

        row['i-length'] = len(row['i-input'].split())


On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:06 AM Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I've run into a mysterious issue with the item files I've generated from
> Xigt corpora, using an export script that in turn relies on pyDelphin: When
> I use them to create [incr tsdb()] skeletons, I end up with profiles that
> are partially but not fully functional: Browse | Items works, for example,
> but when I try Process | All items or try clicking on an individual item to
> process, I get just this message in the emacs buffer:
>
> retrieve(): found 0 items (0 output specifications)
>
> I suspect that this is because there's something missing or odd about the
> item files, but comparing by hand to one that works (generated by Import |
> Test items from within the [incr tsdb()] podium), I can't spot the
> difference.
>
> I've attached a small, two-line example that should reproduce the problem,
> in case anyone has a moment to take a look. (I'm not sending a grammar for
> this language, since the behavior can be observed with any grammar loaded
> into the LKB --- the point of failure is before any parsing happens.)
>
> Thanks!
> Emily
>
> --
> Emily M. Bender
> Professor, Department of Linguistics
> University of Washington
> Twitter: @emilymbender
>


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-Michael Wayne Goodman
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