[pet] [itsdb] [incr tsdb()] and fsc test items

[Stephan Oepen]

hi katya,

i believe this should just work; have you tried?  [incr tsdb()] can store arbitrary strings in its ‘i-input’ field and will (unless configured otherwise) just send those strings verbatim to PET for processing.  in case you had ‘@’ signs (\s), newlines (\n), or backslashes (\\) in your inputs, these would have to be escaped in the tsdb(1) ‘item’ file, using the conventions indicated in parentheses above.

i recall there used to be problems in sending PiC-format inputs to PET from [incr tsdb()], where i believe one had to pad the ‘i-input’ field with two final newlines; otherwise, the parser would hang inreading the PiC XML from the string received from [incr tsdb()].  i don't think this problem is there with the FSC format (though i have not tried myself, but believe peter adolph tends to use the exact setup you sketch).  if it were, please let us know (and we should fix it :-).

i'm copying the PET list, in case other developers or users have further comments or experience reports.

best, oe



On 24. sep. 2011, at 12:33, Katya Alahverdzhieva <K.Alahverdzhieva at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I was wondering whether the test items in [incr tsdb()] can be feature structures instead of strings? So, instead of having "She barked" as a test item, I'd like the the test item to be augmented with arbitrary feature structures (like those inputted to PET), e.g.,
> 
>   <edge source="v0" target="v1">
>      <fs type="speech_token">
>        <f name="+FORM">
>          <str>she</str>
>        </f>
>        <f name="+PHON">
>          <fs type="lnr">
>            <f name="+DOM">
>              <str>she</str>
>            </f>
>          </fs>
>        </f>
>      </fs>
>    </edge>
>   <edge source="v1" target="v2">
>      <fs type="speech_token">
>        <f name="+FORM">
>          <str>barked</str>
>        </f>
>        <f name="+PHON">
>          <fs type="p-word">
>            <f name="+DOM">
>              <str>barked</str>
>            </f>
>          </fs>
>        </f>
>      </fs>
>    </edge>
> 
> If you could give me some pointers to existing samples, that would be great! Thanks for the help!
> 
> Cheers,
> Katya
> 
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