[pet] [delph-in] Poll to identify actively used functionality in PET

[Bernd Kiefer]

Hi Rebecca

On 07.07.2010 02:03, Rebecca Dridan wrote:
> I couldn't attend the PetRoadMap discussion - is there any summary of
> the discussion, or at least what decisions were made on the wiki?
>
>> Input formats we'd like to discard:
>>
>> - pic / pic_counts
>> - yy_counts
>> - smaf
>> - fsr
>>
>
> Particularly, what is the plan for inputs? FSC seemed to do everything I
> had needed from PIC, but at the time it was undocumented, experimental
> code. Will FSC be the default input format when annotation beyond POS
> tags is needed?

The plan is that FSC is, together with string input, the default format.

>>
>> -default-les=traditional determine default les by posmapping for all
>> lexical gaps
>
> Does this mean that we can either hypothesise every generic entry for
> every token (and then filter them), or not use generic entries at all? I
> found this to be a major efficiency issue when large numbers of generic
> entries were available. I don't have a problem with defaulting to the
> current "all" setting, but I think there are still possible
> configurations where one would like to react only when lexical gaps were
> found.

There is a discussion of this input by Dan, which shows the problems of
the old variant on

http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/PetInput

Don't know if you're aware of that.

>>
>> Because these are the only modules that require the inclusion of ECL,
>> support for ECL in PET will also be removed.
> I celebrate the removal of ECL, but will there be any way of doing more
> than white space tokenisation natively in PET, or was the decision made
> that PET will always be run in conjunction with an LKB pre-processing step?

Which other possibilities were there? The idea is to replace the
structured input formats by FSC as far as possible.

Cheers,
	Bernd

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