<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">G'day,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks Woodley and Stephan for your input.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I also tried adding a new test_mark to the MRS to be transferred. This got rewritten as "ja:test_mark" and did *not* end up matching the rule. My hypothesis is that this is due to the final quote. ACE’s transfer implementation does not (yet) fully implement the brave new world under which quotes and _rel suffixes are irrelevant to predicate matching, and when it does you will probably need to enable it with a configuration option. A possible workaround would be to write "~mark\"?$". </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This did indeed solve the problem. another solution would be to make sure all marks are subtypes of mark (and not use strings) then we can just match under subsumption and avoid the regular expression altogether.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Incidentally, how do you feel about "~mark$" matching "_mark_rel"? To me, it would seem hard to justify ignoring quotes without also ignoring the _rel suffix. I would be curious to know the current LOGON implementation’s stance on this.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Stephan for the explanation here. I think moving to normalization is worth it, even if we did end up matching "_mark_rel". I can see several workarounds (use a more obscure name, use types for marks, ...) whereas the issues caused by strings and types behaving differently are hard to predict and debug.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>If you don’t think the behavior you are observing matches the situation above, could you provide an example that causes the behavior so that I can reproduce it locally?</div></blockquote></div><br>Sorry not to give an example the first time round (I sent the mail from a different machine).<br><br clear="all"><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Francis Bond <<a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/" target="_blank">http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/</a>><br>Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies<br>Nanyang Technological University<br></div> </div></div>