issue with compounds

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Shelley,
       Compounds use pluses, as in french+fries and hot+dog.  The underscore is for combinations that are NOT easily classed as compounds, such as helter_skelter, chips_ahoy, jack_in_the_box, etc.  There are files like n-underscore.cut in the MOR that display this.  To be honest, deciding whether or not to treat something as a compound is not that easy.  However, if something is entered as a compound, then using the plus is not necessary.  So, hotdog and hot+dog will yield the same output, but this is not true for helter_skelter.  

— Brian MacW

On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Shelley Brundage <shelley.brundage at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi everyone
> 
> My student Charlotte and I are running MOR/POST etc on some files.  We ran MOR +xl first to get a list of words not recognized by MOR. That list is below. My question is why did it say that MOR would not recognize the compounds such as 'french_fries'?  We checked the manual and it appeared this was how to denote compound words, with the underscore between them. Did that rule change since November?  I understand why other types of words are on the list below. thanks
> 
> 
> 1     french_fries {[scat ?]}
> 2     good_job {[scat ?]}
> 3     hot_dog {[scat ?]}
> 4     ice_cream {[scat ?]}
> 5             i:ce_cream
> 6     mmhm {[scat ?]}
> 7     mmm {[scat ?]}
> 8     mmm_mmm {[scat ?]}
> 9     mmm_mmm_mmm {[scat ?]}
> 10    okay at fp {[scat ?]}
> 11    ops {[scat ?]}
> 12    sea_lion {[scat ?]}
> 13    ta_tan {[scat ?]}
> 14            ta_ta:n
> 15    thank_you {[scat ?]}
> 16            thank_you:
> 17    uh {[scat ?]}
> 18    uh at fp {[scat ?]}
> 19    um at fp {[scat ?]}
> 20    very_good {[scat ?]}
> 21    xxx at a {[scat ?]}
> 
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