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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> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the subject phrase, “Cal. App.2d” refers to the California Court of Appeal for the 2<sup>nd</sup> district.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </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> </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 & [ ORTH < "Cal.","App.","2d" >, SYNSEM [ LKEYS.KEYREL.CARG "CA Court of Appeal, 2nd District", PHON.ONSET con ] ].<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We do not use the ERG’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> </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> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note that this tokenization splits the period from the preceding letters. 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> </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> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PET aborts the parse and informs us that there are no lexicon entries for “Cal”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PET is looking for “unexpanded_items” if the chart is not “connected”, but there seems to be an error in that computation, as shown below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </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> </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 & [ ORTH < "Cal.", "App." >, SYNSEM [ LKEYS.KEYREL.CARG "California Court of Appeal", PHON.ONSET con ] ].<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That is, we obtain spanning parses of the phrase (despite PET’s warning), although not the desired one as follows.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </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 ‘2d’ but the first lexical entry above is not triggered. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </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> </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> </o:p></p></div></body></html>