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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the subject phrase, &#8220;Cal. App.2d&#8221; refers to the California Court of Appeal for the 2<sup>nd</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We augment the ERG with the following lexical entry:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>California_Court_of_Appeal_2nd_District_NNP_abb := n_-_pn_le &amp; [ ORTH &lt; &quot;Cal.&quot;,&quot;App.&quot;,&quot;2d&quot; &gt;, SYNSEM [ LKEYS.KEYREL.CARG &quot;CA Court of Appeal, 2nd District&quot;, PHON.ONSET con ] ].<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We do not use the ERG&#8217;s assumption that uppercase or capitalized tokens are proper_ne, as in the following token mapping rules, but the case here would hold if the text was all lowercase.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We send in the following (via FSC as attached):<o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Cal<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>App<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>2d<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note that this tokenization splits the period from the preceding letters.&nbsp; The example here would hold for any punctuation split during tokenization and joined by token mapping rules, however (e.g., hypens, commas, ...).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We see suffix_punctuation_tmr derive the following tokens:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>Cal.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>App.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PET aborts the parse and informs us that there are no lexicon entries for &#8220;Cal&#8221;.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PET is looking for &#8220;unexpanded_items&#8221; if the chart is not &#8220;connected&#8221;, but there seems to be an error in that computation, as shown below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So we modify PET not to abort in this case (but to inform us) and the parse completes, albeit using only the following lexical entry:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Califonia_Court_of_Appeal_NNP_abb := n_-_pn_le &amp; [ ORTH &lt; &quot;Cal.&quot;, &quot;App.&quot; &gt;, SYNSEM [ LKEYS.KEYREL.CARG &quot;California Court of Appeal&quot;, PHON.ONSET con ] ].<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That is, we obtain spanning parses of the phrase (despite PET&#8217;s warning), although not the desired one as follows.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We see alphanumeric_identifier_ne_4_tmr (harmlessly for the purposes of this discussion) derive a proper_ne for &#8216;2d&#8217; but the first lexical entry above is not triggered. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have no idea why the 3-part lexical entry is not matched.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div></body></html>