[erg] a question of parenthesised numbers

mottdh at googlemail.com mottdh at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 17 09:35:36 CEST 2013


Hi

i am trying to parse a sentence that has the fragment

  a person (1234543265)

I think the ERG treats the parenthetical item as an adjective, which is fine. but the number itself is not recognised, and the parse fails. (it works if i manually add the number to the lexicon!).

my question is: how do i get numbers (and dates by the way) to be recognised as a particular lexical type as if in the lexicon? i am guessing that this is a preparsing issue, and would welcome some pointers to where this might be described.

thank you

David Mott

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