<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14"><meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 14"><link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01CE469B.6EDFF7D0"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'>Hello <span class=SpellE>Mostafa</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'>Since you don’t need generation support, you can use any of the four DELPH-IN parsers. I am aiming to have a first supported release of ‘agree’ available this summer. Until that time, the current sources can be obtained without support by contacting me. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'>ACE and PET have stable releases, and can also produce the MRS output you require with maximum real-time performance. Because the rest of your system uses LISP, continuing to use the LKB seems like a good fit. Emily’s suggestion of KNOPPIX+LKB is a hassle-free route to LKB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'>We welcome your participation in the DELPH-IN community!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'>Glenn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cordia New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> developers-bounces@emmtee.net [mailto:developers-bounces@emmtee.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mostafa Gomaa<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 01, 2013 6:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> Emily M. Bender<br><b>Cc:</b> developers@delph-in.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [developers] Running LKB in tty mode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Emily,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My goal is to get MRS output from LKB and represent it in SNePS (Semantic network processing system) which is another system written in common lisp  <a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/sneps/">http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/sneps/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the suggestions, If all fails, I'll check out the other processors. Is there any particular processor you'd recommend for my case?. Thank you for your time.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mostafa Gomaa<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Emily M. Bender <<a href="mailto:ebender@uw.edu" target="_blank">ebender@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Mostafa,<br><br>Can you tell us about your goals with using this software?<br>Are you planning to develop a new grammar or run with existing<br>grammars?  In the case of the former, the KNOPPIX+LKB VirtualBox<br>appliance might be a good solution:<br><br><a href="http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/twiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/KnoppixLKBVirtualBox" target="_blank">http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/twiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/KnoppixLKBVirtualBox</a><br><br>In case of the latter, you might investigate the other<br>DELPH-IN processors.<br><br>Emily<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Mostafa Gomaa <<a href="mailto:mostafa.gomaa89@gmail.com">mostafa.gomaa89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> After too much effort of attempting to compile LKB under windows using SBCL,<br>> I was finally able to compile it. I mainly followed the error messages, did<br>> some tweaks and edited some character encoding errors. I also played around<br>> with the system files a bit. The problem now is that I want to load and use<br>> a grammar in tty mode. I first tried to load the script file using<br>> (read-script-file-aux path-to-file), but now I receive some errors when the<br>> function is attempting to read the types.tdl file. The errors are as<br>> follows:<br>> Reading in type file types<br>> Checking type hierarchy<br>> *DLIST* specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> *LIST* specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> AGR specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> POS specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> RELATION specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> SEMANTICS specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> SEMENT specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> SIGN specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> STRING specified to have non-existent parent *TOP*<br>> debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread<br>> #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {23EF7981}>:<br>>   Problems in type file<br>><br>> Any ideas on how this may be solved?. Thank you very much.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>><br>> Mostafa Gomaa<br><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'><![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'>--</span></span><span style='color:#888888'><br><span class=hoenzb>Emily M. Bender</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Associate Professor</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Department of Linguistics</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>