[matrix] downloading and installing LKB / The Grammar Matrix

[Emily M. Bender]

Dear Gertrud,

For the grammar matrix, please follow the instructions from
this site:

http://courses.washington.edu/ling567

(ling471 was taught four years ago, and so that site is rather
out of date).  Lab 4 in that has you creating a grammar through
the customization page:

http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/customize/matrix.cgi

When you are finished entering choices, you can click "create
grammar".  That will give you an archive containing a directory
with all of the files for your grammar.  You can put this directory
wherever you choose.  

The installation script no longer provides the Matrix itself,
because this is now best accessed through the customization page.

As for LKB instructions, I'm cc-ing this message to the LKB
list.

Emily

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:03:25PM +0200, Gertrud Faasz wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm part of a team that is determined to develop an electronic grammar
> for Northern Sotho, a Southern African Bantu Language. We are located at
> the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
> We decided to try the Grammar Matrix and so - being very unexperienced -
> we today tried to download/install the LKB and the Grammar Matrix on our
> (Fedora 6) Linux PC. Unfortunately we encountered a problem that we do
> not know what to do about. Please help us.
> 
> 1. We encountered the following problem:
> 
> Using the download instructures (LINUX) described at
> http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LkbInstallation) we first entered the wget
> command to get the installation file. Then we tried the "install" by
> using # bash install --home ~/delphin
> 
> The result was the following
> ------------------------
> [root at b023pc151 gertrud]# bash install --home ~/delphin
> install: `lkb_data.tgz' ... done.
> install: `lkb_linux.x86.64.tgz' ... done.
> install: `lkb_source.tgz' ... done.
> install: `itsdb_libraries.tgz' ... done.
> install: `itsdb_tsdb.tgz' ... done.
> install: `itsdb_capi.tgz' ... done.
> install:
> `itsdb_linux.x86.64.tgz' ...gunzip: /root/delphin/Archives/itsdb_linux.x86.64.tgz: No such file or directory
>  missing.
> install: `itsdb_data.tgz' ... done.
> install: `itsdb_documentation.tgz' ... done.
> install: `itsdb_source.tgz' ... done.
> install: `eli.tgz' ... done.
> install: `erg.tgz' ... done.
> install: `matrix.tgz' ... missing.
> install: `spanish.tgz' ... done.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> 
> 2. Two questions
> 
> A. We did download the matrix.tgz file as it was instructed at
> http://courses.washington.edu/ling471/lab1.html
> 
> ...Then we were told to "unpack" the file. We would like to know if it
> is to be unpacked into the .../data/itfs/grammars directory that is
> described as the location for grammars in the book of Ann Copestake
> (Implementing Feature Structure Grammars) or if there is another default
> directory to put the grammar. 
> 
> B. We created a "choices" file
> .. and now we do not know how it will actually influence the Grammar, if
> someone could please tell us a URL where this is explained. 
> 
> Thank you ever so much in advance!
> 
> Gertrud Faasz
> for the department of African Languages, UP, South Africa
>