<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>hi bill,</div><div><br></div><div>as you say, feature caching obviously requires the grammar.  it might well be the case that the grid search and training steps would work fine without the grammar (but there could also be some silly dependencies that i'm overlooking just now).  if you want to know, just give it a shot and post the results of that experiment.  in the larger scheme, however, i doubt that the savings in time or memory will be significant (well, memory maybe, if one's already tip-toeing around the limits of avalaible hardware).</div><div><br></div><div>best, oe<br><br><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 14, 2009, at 6:43 AM, "W.P. McNeill (UW)" <<a href="mailto:billmcn@u.washington.edu">billmcn@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The $LOGON/lingo/redwoods/load script always loads a grammar.  Is this necessary?  For example, I would think that when I'm doing parse ranking I shouldn't need a grammar loaded after I've cached the features.  Is this correct?<div> <br>-- <br>W.P. McNeill<br><a href="http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml"><a href="http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml">http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml</a></a><br> </div> </div></blockquote></body></html>